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Tuberculosis
New tuberculosis research from University of KwaZulu-Natal outlined
August 26th, 2008
"Tuberculosis remains a major cause of morbidity and mortality in the developing world. A better understanding of the mechanisms of disease protection could allow novel strategies to disease management and control," researchers in South Africa report. "To identify human genomic loci with evidence of linkage to tuberculosis susceptibility and, within these loci, to identify individual genes influencing tuberculosis susceptibility. Affected sibling pair analysis in South African and Malawian populations. Independent case-control study in West Africa. Two novel putative loci for tuberculosis susceptibility are identified: chromosome 6p21-q23 and chromosome 20q 13.31-33-the...
Source: TB & Outbreaks Week (2008-08-26)
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