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We are grateful to all study participants. We thank L. Stcheglova and Y. Korneev, I. Fedorin, N. Lebedeva and S. Zakharova for their help in recruiting study participants and collecting blood samples in Russia, as well as E. Browne, T. Enimil, J. Gyapong, I. Osei and E. Owusu-Dabo for their contributions to the study in Ghana. We thank M. Netea and A. Thalamuthu for helpful suggestions and discussions. S.N. is a Diabetes Research and Wellness Foundation Non-Clinical Fellow. The Diabetes and Inflammation Laboratory is funded by the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation and the Wellcome Trust. Recruitment and analysis of the Ghanaian study group were supported by the German Ministry for Education and Research through the National Genome Research Network. The Indonesian study was supported by the Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW), the Netherlands, the research network PRIOR (Poverty Related Infection Oriented Research), The Netherlands Foundation for Advancement of Tropical Research (NWO-WOTRO), the Eijkman Institute of Molecular Biology, Jakarta, and the Genome Institute of Singapore. The funders had no role in the design and conduct of the study, the collection, analysis and interpretation of the data, or the preparation, review and approval of the manuscript.
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Nejentsev, S., Thye, T., Szeszko, J. et al. Analysis of association of the TIRAP (MAL) S180L variant and tuberculosis in three populations. Nat Genet 40, 261–262 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/ng0308-261
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