Susceptibility to tuberculosis is associated with variants in the ASAP1 gene encoding a regulator of dendritic cell migration

NATURE GENETICS(2015)

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Abstract
Sergey Nejentsev and colleagues identify intronic variants in ASAP1 that associate with susceptibility to tuberculosis. They show that ASAP1 is downregulated in dendritic cells infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis , impairing their migration and matrix degradation abilities.
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Genetic association study,Tuberculosis,Biomedicine,general,Human Genetics,Cancer Research,Agriculture,Gene Function,Animal Genetics and Genomics
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