Low expression of immune response gene 'MIF' in Africans increases risk for TB

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The research published in PNAS was supported by the National Institutes of Health and the Burrough Wellcome Fund. A release on the PNAS study can also be found here.

Other authors are Richard Bucala, Bae Hoon Kim, Jie Yao, Lin Leng, Rebecca Levy, Charles Murchison, and John MacMicking of Yale University; Mi-Sun Koo, Selvakumar Subbian, and Gilla Kaplan of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey; Shevin Jacob of the University of Washington; William Burman of the University of Colorado; Christopher Moore of the University of Virginia; and John David of Harvard School of Public Health.

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