Expression of vitamin D receptor (VDR) and VDR target genes in an African and Caucasian population: the impact of vitamin D and mycobacterial elicitation.
M.Sc. (Biochemistry) === Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease that worldwide, is more prevalent in Africans compared to Caucasians. TB also affects males to a greater extent than females. Genetic associations between VDR sequence variants and TB is often inconsistent across different populatio...
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2014
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10210/8793 |