Little Evidence for Genetic Susceptibility to Influenza A (H5N1) from Family Clustering Data

The apparent clustering of human cases of influenza A (H5N1) among blood relatives has been considered as evidence of genetic variation in susceptibility. We show that, by chance alone, a high proportion of clusters are expected to be limited to blood relatives when infection is a rare event.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Pitzer, Virginia E., Olsen, Sonja J., Bergstrom, Carl T., Dowell, Scott F., Lipsitch, Marc
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2007
Materias:
Dispatch
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2878232/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18214184
http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid1307.061538

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