Nature Communications (Oct 2018)

Genome-wide association study identifies two risk loci for tuberculosis in Han Chinese

  • Ruijuan Zheng,
  • Zhiqiang Li,
  • Fusheng He,
  • Haipeng Liu,
  • Jianhua Chen,
  • Jiayu Chen,
  • Xuefeng Xie,
  • Juan Zhou,
  • Hao Chen,
  • Xiangyang Wu,
  • Juehui Wu,
  • Boyu Chen,
  • Yahui Liu,
  • Haiyan Cui,
  • Lin Fan,
  • Wei Sha,
  • Yin Liu,
  • Jiqiang Wang,
  • Xiaochen Huang,
  • Linfeng Zhang,
  • Feifan Xu,
  • Jie Wang,
  • Yonghong Feng,
  • Lianhua Qin,
  • Hua Yang,
  • Zhonghua Liu,
  • Zhenglin Cui,
  • Feng Liu,
  • Xinchun Chen,
  • Shaorong Gao,
  • Silong Sun,
  • Yongyong Shi,
  • Baoxue Ge

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-06539-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Genetic risk loci for tuberculosis (TB) have so far been identified in African and Russian populations. Here, the authors perform a three-stage GWAS for TB in Han Chinese populations and find two risk loci near ESRRB and TGM6 and further demonstrate that tgm6 protects mice from Mtb infection.