Susceptibility to tuberculosis is known to be under complex genetic control in humans, but what are the genes involved? A mouse strain that is unusually prone to the disease shows the way.
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Jabado, N., Gros, P. The genetics of vulnerability. Nature 434, 709–711 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1038/434709a
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