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Genetic susceptibility to different clinical forms of tuberculosis in the Peruvian population.
Infection, genetics and evolution : journal of molecular epidemiology and evolutionary genetics in infectious diseases - 1 May 2010
Taype C A, Shamsuzzaman S, Accinelli R A, Espinoza J R, Shaw M-A
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Racial variation, twin studies, segregation analyses, linkage and association studies all suggest that genetic factors play an important role in predisposition to tuberculosis. Many previous studies have been performed with pulmonary TB patients, as the most prevalent form of clinical TB (nearly...
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