Human Tuberculosis Gene
Filed in archive Diagnostics, Methodologies and Instrumentation , Genomics, Proteomics and Bioinformatics by ruth on June 22, 2006

A genomic scan of 400 TB patients in Gambia, Guinea-Conakry and Guinea-Bissau, three versions of the gene SP110 has been shown to be associated with TB symptoms. These results, published in the latest issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, can be instrumental in explaining the epidemiology and possibly in defining strategies to control tuberculosis.
[Photo: Thin section transmission electron
micrograph of the tubercle bacilli, Mycobacterium tuberculosis; from Wadsworth Center]*updated on 29th June to indicate link to PNAS article. Credits go to GeneExpression for locating the elusive article.
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