{"id":81,"date":"2011-01-14T20:51:13","date_gmt":"2011-01-14T20:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/jmg\/?p=81"},"modified":"2011-01-15T18:37:34","modified_gmt":"2011-01-15T18:37:34","slug":"what-did-we-learn-from-the-genome-wide-association-study-for-tuberculosis-susceptibility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/jmg\/2011\/01\/14\/what-did-we-learn-from-the-genome-wide-association-study-for-tuberculosis-susceptibility\/","title":{"rendered":"What did we learn from the genome-wide association study for tuberculosis susceptibility?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A well-designed and rigorous genome-wide association study (GWAS) on tuberculosis (TB) susceptibility provided an opportunity to examine the genetic association from previously reported TB candidate genes. We performed a simulation study based on the Wellcome Trust Case-Control Consortium (WTCCC) TB GWAS data. As shown by our simulation results, the previously reported TB candidate genes were not supported by the GWAS data. (By Dr. Hui-Qi Qu, <a href=\"http:\/\/jmg.bmj.com\/content\/early\/2011\/01\/10\/jmg.2010.087361?papetoc\">http:\/\/jmg.bmj.com\/content\/early\/2011\/01\/10\/jmg.2010.087361?papetoc<\/a>= )<!--TrendMD v2.4.8--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A well-designed and rigorous genome-wide association study (GWAS) on tuberculosis (TB) susceptibility provided an opportunity to examine the genetic association from previously reported TB candidate genes. We performed a simulation study based on the Wellcome Trust Case-Control Consortium (WTCCC) TB GWAS data. As shown by our simulation results, the previously reported TB candidate genes were [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/jmg\/2011\/01\/14\/what-did-we-learn-from-the-genome-wide-association-study-for-tuberculosis-susceptibility\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/jmg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/jmg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/jmg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/jmg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/jmg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/jmg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/jmg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/jmg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/jmg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}