Human genetic susceptibility to tuberculosis: Time for a bottom-up approach?

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 205, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 525-527

  Wilkinson, Robert John ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CASPASE RECRUITMENT DOMAIN PROTEIN 15; CD209 ANTIGEN; CELL PROTEIN; GAMMA INTERFERON; HLA DR15 ANTIGEN; MONOCYTE CHEMOTACTIC PROTEIN 1; PROTEIN SP100; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VITAMIN D;

CHROMOSOME 15Q; CHROMOSOME 17Q; CHROMOSOME 20Q; CHROMOSOME XQ; GENE; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMAN; INNATE IMMUNITY; LINKAGE ANALYSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NOTE; PLAKOPHILIN 3 GENE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR GENE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SINGLE IMMUNOGLOBULIN INTERLEUKIN 1 RECEPTOR GENE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SLC11A1 GENE; TMEM16 GENE; TUBERCULOSIS; VITAMIN BLOOD LEVEL; VITAMIN D RECEPTOR GENE;

ABDOMEN; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CONSANGUINITY; DISEASES IN TWINS; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENETIC VARIATION; HEPATITIS B, CHRONIC; HUMANS; MALE; METABOLISM, INBORN ERRORS; MUTATION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; RECEPTORS, CALCITRIOL; RECEPTORS, INTERLEUKIN; RECEPTORS, INTERLEUKIN-1; TOLL-LIKE RECEPTORS; TUBERCULOSIS; TUBERCULOSIS, MENINGEAL; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY;

EID: 84856245765     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/infdis/jir792     Document Type: Note

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