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No evidence for association between the polymorphism in the 3' untranslated region of interleukin-12B and human susceptibility to tuberculosis.
The Journal of infectious diseases - 15 Oct 2003
Ma Xin, Reich Robert A, Gonzalez Omar, Pan Xi, Fothergill Amanda K, Starke Jeffery R, Teeter Larry D, Musser James M, Graviss Edward A
Abstract excerpt
Interleukin (IL)-12 plays a pivotal role in cell-mediated immunity to Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection. We tested the association between a biallelic single-nucleotide polymorphism in the 3' untranslated region (UTR) of IL-12B and human susceptibility to tuberculosis (TB), in a population-based case-control study of adult patients with TB from 2 ethnicities, African American and white, and in a family-based...
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