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Candidate gene study of susceptibility to cutaneous leishmaniasis in Sri Lanka.
Tropical medicine & international health : TM & IH - 1 May 2010
Samaranayake T N, Fernando S D, Dissanayake V H W
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVES: To investigate the association between selected single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in TNF, LTA and SLC11A1 genes and risk of endemic cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) in Sri Lanka through a case-control disease association study. METHODS: An anonymized DNA resource representative of the Sri Lankan population was genotyped initially to establish baseline parameters. This was followed up by genotyping...
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