World Health Organization. Global tuberculosis report 2014. Geneva: World Health Organization; 2014. p. 23–8.
Google Scholar
National Technical Steering Group of the Epidemiological Sampling Survey for Tuberculosis, Implementing Office of the Sampling Survey for Tuberculosis. The prevalence of pulmonary tuberculosis in a national survey across China in 2010. Chin J Tuberc Respir Dis. 2012;35:665–8.
Google Scholar
Yang JM, Simahule JES, Tai XR, Li YH, Zhao Z. Analysis of tuberculosis epidemiological survey conducted in 2010-2011 in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. Chin J Antituberc. 2013;35:960–4.
Google Scholar
Wang L, Zhang H, Ruan Y, Chin DP, Xia Y, Cheng S, et al. Tuberculosis prevalence in China, 1990-2010; a longitudinal analysis of national survey data. Lancet. 2014;383(9934):2057–64.
Article
PubMed
Google Scholar
Comstock GW. Tuberculosis in twins: a re-analysis of the Prophit survey. Am Rev Respir Dis. 1978;117(4):621–4.
CAS
PubMed
Google Scholar
Stein CM, Zalwango S, Chiunda AB, Millard C, Leontiev DV, Horvath AL, et al. Linkage and association analysis of candidate genes for TB and TNFalpha cytokine expression: evidence for association with IFNGR1, IL-10, and TNF receptor 1 genes. Hum Genet. 2007;121(6):663–73.
Article
CAS
PubMed
Google Scholar
Yim JJ, Selvaraj P. Genetic susceptibility in tuberculosis. Respirology. 2010;15(2):241–56.
Article
PubMed
Google Scholar
Thye T, Owusu-Dabo E, Vannberg FO, van Crevel R, Curtis J, Sahiratmadja E, et al. Common variants at 11p13 are associated with susceptibility to tuberculosis. Nat Genet. 2012;44(3):257–9.
Article
CAS
PubMed
PubMed Central
Google Scholar
Stead WW, Senner JW, Reddick WT, Lofgren JP. Racial differences in susceptibility to infection by Mycobacterium tuberculosis. N Engl J Med. 1990;322(7):422–7.
Article
CAS
PubMed
Google Scholar
Delgado JC, Baena A, Thim S, Goldfeld AE. Ethnic-specific genetic associations with pulmonary tuberculosis. J Infect Dis. 2002;186(10):1463–8.
Article
CAS
PubMed
Google Scholar
McGeachy MJ, Chen Y, Tato CM, Laurence A, Joyce-Shaikh B, Blumenschein WM, et al. The interleukin 23 receptor is essential for the terminal differentiation of interleukin 17-producing effector T helper cells in vivo. Nat Immunol. 2009;10(3):314–24.
Article
CAS
PubMed
PubMed Central
Google Scholar
Khader SA, Cooper AM. IL-23 and IL-17 in tuberculosis. Cytokine. 2008;41(2):79–83.
Article
CAS
PubMed
PubMed Central
Google Scholar
Khader SA, Guglani L, Rangel-Moreno J, Gopal R, Junecko BA, Fountain JJ, et al. IL-23 is required for long-term control of Mycobacterium tuberculosis and B cell follicle formation in the infected lung. J Immunol. 2011;187(10):5402–7.
Article
CAS
PubMed
PubMed Central
Google Scholar
Parham C, Chirica M, Timans J, Vaisberg E, Travis M, Cheung J, et al. A receptor for the heterodimeric cytokine IL-23 is composed of IL-12Rbeta1 and a novel cytokine receptor subunit, IL-23R. J Immunol. 2002;168(11):5699–708.
Article
CAS
PubMed
Google Scholar
Kikly K, Liu L, Na S, Sedgwick JD. The IL-23/Th(17) axis: therapeutic targets for autoimmune inflammation. Curr Opin Immunol. 2006;18(6):670–5.
Article
CAS
PubMed
Google Scholar
Stein CM, Guwatudde D, Nakakeeto M, Peters P, Elston RC, Tiwari HK, et al. Heritability analysis of cytokines as intermediate phenotypes of tuberculosis. J Infect Dis. 2003;187(11):1679–85.
Article
CAS
PubMed
PubMed Central
Google Scholar
Ben-Selma W, Boukadida J. IL23R(Arg381Gln) functional polymorphism is associated with active pulmonary tuberculosis severity. Clin Vaccine Immunol. 2012;19(8):1188–92.
Article
CAS
PubMed
PubMed Central
Google Scholar
Iafrate AJ, Feuk L, Rivera MN, Listewnik ML, Donahoe PK, Qi Y, et al. Detection of large-scale variation in the human genome. Nat Genet. 2004;36(9):949–51.
Article
CAS
PubMed
Google Scholar
Ali S, Srivastava AK, Chopra R, Aggarwal S, Garg VK, Bhattacharya SN, et al. IL12B SNPs and copy number variation in IL23R gene associated with susceptibility to leprosy. J Med Genet. 2013;50(1):34–42.
Article
CAS
PubMed
Google Scholar
Ablimit A, Qin W, Shan W, Wu W, Ling F, Ling KH, et al. Genetic diversities of cytochrome B in Xinjiang Uyghur unveiled its origin and migration history. BMC Genet. 2013;14:100.
Article
PubMed
PubMed Central
Google Scholar
China Antituberculosis Association. The laboratory science procedure of diagnostic bacteriology in tuberculosis. Bulletin of the Chinese Antituberculosis Association. 1996;18:28–31.
Google Scholar
Zhang J, Mi L, Wang Y, Liu P, Liang H, Huang Y, et al. Genotypes and drug susceptibility of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Isolates in Shihezi, Xinjiang Province, China. BMC Res Notes. 2012;5:309.
Article
PubMed
PubMed Central
Google Scholar
Kim HS, Park MH, Song EY, Park H, Kwon SY, Han SK, et al. Association of HLA-DR and HLA-DQ genes with susceptibility to pulmonary tuberculosis in Koreans: preliminary evidence of associations with drug resistance, disease severity, and disease recurrence. Hum Immunol. 2005;66(10):1074–81.
Article
CAS
PubMed
Google Scholar
Thuong NT, Dunstan SJ, Chau TT, Thorsson V, Simmons CP, Quyen NT, et al. Identification of tuberculosis susceptibility genes with human macrophage gene expression profiles. PLoS Pathog. 2008;4(12):e1000229.
Article
PubMed
PubMed Central
Google Scholar
You GL, Ding QL, Lu YL, Dai J, Xi XD, Wang XF, et al. Characterization of large deletions in the F8 gene using multiple competitive amplification and the genome walking technique. J Thromb Haemost. 2013;11(6):1103–10.
Article
CAS
PubMed
Google Scholar
Pinheiro LB, Coleman VA, Hindson CM, Herrmann J, Hindson BJ, Bhat S, et al. Evaluation of a droplet digital polymerase chain reaction format for DNA copy number quantification. Anal Chem. 2012;84(2):1003–11.
Article
CAS
PubMed
Google Scholar
Niederer HA, Willcocks LC, Rayner TF, Yang W, Lau YL, Williams TN, et al. Copy number, linkage disequilibrium and disease association in the FCGR locus. Hum Mol Genet. 2010;19(16):3282–94.
Article
CAS
PubMed
PubMed Central
Google Scholar
Stranger BE, Forrest MS, Dunning M, Ingle CE, Beazley C, Thorne N, et al. Relative impact of nucleotide and copy number variation on gene expression phenotypes. Science. 2007;315(5813):848–53.
Article
CAS
PubMed
PubMed Central
Google Scholar
Zhang X, Li X, Zhang W, Wei L, Jiang T, Chen Z, et al. The novel human MRC1 gene polymorphisms are associated with susceptibility to pulmonary tuberculosis in Chinese Uygur and Kazak populations. Mol Biol Rep. 2013;40(8):5073–83.
Article
CAS
PubMed
Google Scholar
Zwiers A, Kraal L, van de Pouw Kraan TC, Wurdinger T, Bouma G, Kraal G. Cutting edge: a variant of the IL-23R gene associated with inflammatory bowel disease induces loss of microRNA regulation and enhanced protein production. J Immunol. 2012;188(4):1573–7.
Article
CAS
PubMed
Google Scholar
Mamtani M, Mummidi S, Ramsuran V, Pham MH, Maldonado R, Begum K, et al. Influence of variations in CCL3L1 and CCR5 on tuberculosis in a northwestern Colombian population. J Infect Dis. 2011;203(11):1590–4.
Article
CAS
PubMed
PubMed Central
Google Scholar
Carpenter D, Taype C, Goulding J, Levin M, Eley B, Anderson S, et al. CCL3L1 copy number, CCR5 genotype and susceptibility to tuberculosis. BMC Med Genet. 2014;15:5.
Article
PubMed
PubMed Central
Google Scholar
Kleinjan DA, van Heyningen V. Long-range control of gene expression: emerging mechanisms and disruption in disease. Am J Hum Genet. 2005;76(1):8–32.
Article
CAS
PubMed
Google Scholar
McCarroll SA, Hadnott TN, Perry GH, Sabeti PC, Zody MC, Barrett JC, et al. Common deletion polymorphisms in the human genome. Nat Genet. 2006;38(1):86–92.
Article
CAS
PubMed
Google Scholar
Takahashi K, Hasegawa Y, Abe T, Yamamoto T, Nakashima K, Imaizumi K, et al. SLC11A1 (formerly NRAMP1) polymorphisms associated with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis. Tuberculosis (Edinb). 2008;88(1):52–7.
Article
CAS
Google Scholar
Abe T, Iinuma Y, Ando M, Yokoyama T, Yamamoto T, Nakashima K, et al. NRAMP1 polymorphisms, susceptibility and clinical features of tuberculosis. J Infect. 2003;46(4):215–20.
Article
CAS
PubMed
Google Scholar
Remus N, El Baghdadi J, Fieschi C, Feinberg J, Quintin T, Chentoufi M, et al. Association of IL12RB1 polymorphisms with pulmonary tuberculosis in adults in Morocco. J Infect Dis. 2004;190(3):580–7.
Article
CAS
PubMed
Google Scholar
Kusuhara K, Yamamoto K, Okada K, Mizuno Y, Hara T. Association of IL12RB1 polymorphisms with susceptibility to and severity of tuberculosis in Japanese: a gene-based association analysis of 21 candidate genes. Int J Immunogenet. 2007;34(1):35–44.
Article
CAS
PubMed
Google Scholar
Lee HW, Lee HS, Kim DK, Ko DS, Han SK, Shim YS, et al. Lack of an association between interleukin-12 receptor beta1 polymorphisms and tuberculosis in Koreans. Respiration. 2005;72(4):365–8.
Article
CAS
PubMed
Google Scholar
Peng R, Yue J, Han M, Zhao Y, Liu L, Liang L. The IL-17 F sequence variant is associated with susceptibility to tuberculosis. Gene. 2013;515(1):229–32.
Article
CAS
PubMed
Google Scholar
Ocejo-Vinyals JG, de Mateo EP, Hoz MA, Arroyo JL, Aguero R, Ausin F, et al. The IL-17 G-152A single nucleotide polymorphism is associated with pulmonary tuberculosis in northern Spain. Cytokine. 2013;64(1):58–61.
Article
CAS
PubMed
Google Scholar
Abhimanyu, Bose M, Komal, Varma-Basil M. Lack of association between IL17A and IL17F polymorphisms and related serum levels in north Indians with tuberculosis. Gene. 2013;529(1):195–8.
Article
CAS
PubMed
Google Scholar
Sabri A, Grant AV, Cosker K, El Azbaoui S, Abid A, Abderrahmani Rhorfi I, et al. Association Study of Genes Controlling IL-12-dependent IFN-gamma Immunity: STAT4 Alleles Increase Risk of Pulmonary Tuberculosis in Morocco. J Infect Dis. 2014;210(4):611–8.
Article
CAS
PubMed
PubMed Central
Google Scholar
Zuniga J, Torres-Garcia D, Santos-Mendoza T, Rodriguez-Reyna TS, Granados J, Yunis EJ. Cellular and humoral mechanisms involved in the control of tuberculosis. Clin Dev Immunol. 2012;2012:193923. doi: 10.1155/2012/193923. Epub 2012 May 17.
Matucci A, Maggi E, Vultaggio A. Cellular and humoral immune responses during tuberculosis infection: useful knowledge in the era of biological agents. J Rheumatol Suppl. 2014;91:17–23.
Article
CAS
PubMed
Google Scholar
Lonnroth K, Williams BG, Cegielski P, Dye C. A consistent log-linear relationship between tuberculosis incidence and body mass index. Int J Epidemiol. 2010;39(1):149–55.
Article
PubMed
Google Scholar
Cegielski JP, McMurray DN. The relationship between malnutrition and tuberculosis: evidence from studies in humans and experimental animals. Int J Tuberc Lung Dis. 2004;8(3):286–98.
CAS
PubMed
Google Scholar
Hanrahan CF, Golub JE, Mohapi L, Tshabangu N, Modisenyane T, Chaisson RE, et al. Body mass index and risk of tuberculosis and death. AIDS. 2010;24(10):1501–8.
Article
PubMed
PubMed Central
Google Scholar
Stein CM. Genetic epidemiology of tuberculosis susceptibility: impact of study design. PLoS Pathog. 2011;7(1):e1001189.
Article
CAS
PubMed
PubMed Central
Google Scholar