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NRAMP1 polymorphisms, susceptibility and clinical features of tuberculosis.
The Journal of infection - 1 May 2003
Abe T, Iinuma Y, Ando M, Yokoyama T, Yamamoto T, Nakashima K, Takagi N, Baba H, Hasegawa Y, Shimokata K
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OBJECTIVES: To study whether NRAMP1 gene polymorphisms in a Japanese population affect susceptibility to tuberculosis and clinical features of tuberculosis. METHODS: Polymerase chain reaction and restriction fragment-length polymorphism analyses were used to type NRAMP1 polymorphisms in 95 patients with pulmonary tuberculosis and 90 controls. Clinical features of patients also were investigated. RESULTS: No...
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