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MCP1 haplotypes associated with protection from pulmonary tuberculosis.
BMC genetics - 19 Apr 2011
Intemann Christopher D, Thye Thorsten, Förster Birgit, Owusu-Dabo Ellis, Gyapong John, Horstmann Rolf D, Meyer Christian G
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BACKGROUND: The monocyte chemoattractant protein 1 (MCP-1) is involved in the recruitment of lymphocytes and monocytes and their migration to sites of injury and cellular immune reactions. In a Ghanaian tuberculosis (TB) case-control study group, associations of the MCP1 -362C and the MCP1 -2581G alleles with resistance to TB were recently described. The latter association was in contrast to genetic effects...
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