Genome-wide association analyses identifies a susceptibility locus for tuberculosis on chromosome 18q11.2

We combined two tuberculosis (TB) genome-wide association studies (GWAS) from Ghana and The Gambia with subsequent replication totalling 11,425 participants. A significant association with disease was observed at SNP rs4331426 located in a gene-poor region on chromosome 18q11.2 (P=6.8×10(−9), OR=1.1...

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Autores principales: Thye, Thorsten, Vannberg, Fredrik O., Wong, Sunny H., Owusu-Dabo, Ellis, Osei, Ivy, Gyapong, John, Sirugo, Giorgio, Sisay-Joof, Fatou, Enimil, Anthony, Chinbuah, Margaret A., Floyd, Sian, Warndorff, David K., Sichali, Lifted, Malema, Simon, Crampin, Amelia C., Ngwira, Bagrey, Teo, Yik Y., Small, Kerrin, Rockett, Kirk, Kwiatkowski, Dominic, Fine, Paul E., Hill, Philip C., Newport, Melanie, Lienhardt, Christian, Adegbola, Richard A., Corrah, Tumani, Ziegler, Andreas, Morris, Andrew P., Meyer, Christian G., Horstmann, Rolf D., Hill, Adrian V.S.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4975513/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20694014
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ng.639
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Sumario:We combined two tuberculosis (TB) genome-wide association studies (GWAS) from Ghana and The Gambia with subsequent replication totalling 11,425 participants. A significant association with disease was observed at SNP rs4331426 located in a gene-poor region on chromosome 18q11.2 (P=6.8×10(−9), OR=1.19, 95%CI=1.13-1.27). Our finding shows that GWAS can identify novel loci for infectious causes of mortality even in Africa where levels of linkage disequilibrium are particularly low.

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