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LMP2/LMP7 gene variant: a risk factor for intestinal Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection in the Chinese population.
Journal of gastroenterology and hepatology - 1 Jul 2011
Lv Yuan, Yan Bo, Yang Hongli, Liu Jian, Zhong Wei, Li Kun, Chen Ziping, Xu Changqing
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BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Low molecular mass protein-2 (LMP2) and low molecular mass protein-7 (LMP7) genes play a critical role in foreign antigen processing on the major histocompatibility complex-I CD8(+) cytotoxic T-lymphocyte pathway. This study was designed to investigate whether the sequence variants in the LMP2/LMP7 coding region were associated with intestinal Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M. tuberculosis)...
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