Nature Communications (Aug 2019)

Early progression to active tuberculosis is a highly heritable trait driven by 3q23 in Peruvians

  • Yang Luo,
  • Sara Suliman,
  • Samira Asgari,
  • Tiffany Amariuta,
  • Yuriy Baglaenko,
  • Marta Martínez-Bonet,
  • Kazuyoshi Ishigaki,
  • Maria Gutierrez-Arcelus,
  • Roger Calderon,
  • Leonid Lecca,
  • Segundo R. León,
  • Judith Jimenez,
  • Rosa Yataco,
  • Carmen Contreras,
  • Jerome T. Galea,
  • Mercedes Becerra,
  • Sergey Nejentsev,
  • Peter A. Nigrovic,
  • D. Branch Moody,
  • Megan B. Murray,
  • Soumya Raychaudhuri

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-11664-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Between 5 and 15% of latent Mycobacterium tuberculosis infections develop into active tuberculosis (TB). Here, Luo et al. report a genome-wide association study for early TB progression in a total of 4002 active TB cases and their household contacts in Peru and they identify a locus on 3q23 in which ATP1B3 is mapped as the likely causal gene.