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[Advances in genome-wide association study of tuberculosis].
Yi chuan = Hereditas - 1 Jul 2013
Zheng Wei, Ji Lin-Dan, Xing Wen-Hua, Tu Wei-Wei, Xu Jin
Abstract excerpt
Tuberculosis, caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB), is one of the oldest and most influential diseases in the history due to its devastating effect on health and high mortality rate worldwide. Tuberculosis causes more human deaths than any other single infectious disease and the incidence of the tuberculosis is increasing dramatically in recent years. Genome-wide association study (GWAS) has been used to...
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