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The role of ancestry in TB susceptibility of an admixed South African population.
Tuberculosis (Edinburgh, Scotland) - 1 Jul 2014
Daya Michelle, van der Merwe Lize, van Helden Paul D, Möller Marlo, Hoal Eileen G
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Genetic susceptibility to tuberculosis (TB) has been well established and this, taken together with variation in susceptibility observed between different geographic and ethnic populations, implies that susceptibility to TB may in part be affected by ethnicity. In a previous genome-wide TB case-control study (642 cases and 91 controls) of the admixed South African Coloured (SAC) population, we found a positive...
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