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Analysis of the association between BTNL2 polymorphism and tuberculosis in Chinese Han population.
Infection, genetics and evolution : journal of molecular epidemiology and evolutionary genetics in infectious diseases - 1 May 2010
Lian Yuanyuan, Yue Jun, Han Ming, Liu Jianfang, Liu Lirong
Abstract excerpt
BTNL2 gene, a MHC class II gene-linked butyrophilin family member, has been recently associated with the inflammatory autoimmune diseases, such as tuberculosis, sarcoidosis and leprosy. This diseases show phenotypic features of granulomatous disease. Multiple single nucleotide polymorphisms in BT...
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