Tuberculosis and chronic hepatitis B virus infection in Africans and variation in the vitamin D receptor gene.
The active metabolite of vitamin D, 1,25 dihydroxyvitamin D3, is an important immunoregulatory hormone [1]. Its effects are exerted by interaction with the vitamin D receptor, which is present on human monocytes and activated T and B lymphocytes. Variation in the vitamin D receptor gene was typed in...
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1999
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