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No Significant Effect of ASAP1 Gene Variants on the Susceptibility to Tuberculosis in Chinese Population.
Medicine - 1 May 2016
Hu Xuejiao, Peng Wu, Chen Xuerong, Zhao Zhenzhen, Zhang Jingya, Zhou Juan, Cai Bei, Chen Jie, Zhou Yanhong, Lu Xiaojun, Ying Binwu
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Recent studies have proposed that the ASAP1 gene participates in regulating the adaptive immune response to Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection. A GWAS study has reported that ASAP1 polymorphisms (rs4733781 and rs10956514) were associated with the risk of tuberculosis (TB) in Russians. But due to population heterogeneity, different races would have different causative polymorphisms, and the aim of this study was...
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