Full-Exon Resequencing Reveals Toll-Like Receptor Variants Contribute to Human Susceptibility to Tuberculosis Disease

• Xin Ma,

  Affiliation Center for Human Bacterial Pathogenesis, Department of Pathology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

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• Yuhua Liu ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Yuhua Liu, Brian B. Gowen

  Current address: Department of Pathology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America,

  Affiliation Laboratory of Human Bacterial Pathogenesis, Rocky Mountain Laboratories, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Hamilton, Montana, United States of America

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• Brian B. Gowen ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Yuhua Liu, Brian B. Gowen

  Current address: Institute for Antiviral Research, Utah State University, Logan, Utah, United States of America

  Affiliation Laboratory of Human Bacterial Pathogenesis, Rocky Mountain Laboratories, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Hamilton, Montana, United States of America

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• Edward A. Graviss,

  Affiliation Center for Human Bacterial Pathogenesis, Department of Pathology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

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• Andrew G. Clark,

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

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• James M. Musser

  *To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: jmmusser@tmhs.org

  Affiliations Laboratory of Human Bacterial Pathogenesis, Rocky Mountain Laboratories, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Hamilton, Montana, United States of America, Center for Human Molecular and Translational Infectious Diseases Research, The Methodist Hospital Research Institute, Houston, Texas, United States of America

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