Investigation of Genetic Susceptibility to Blastomycosis Reveals Interleukin-6 as a Potential Susceptibility Locus

ABSTRACT Genetic differences are hypothesized to underlie ethnic disparities in incidence rates of the endemic systemic mycoses, including blastomycosis. Individuals of Hmong ancestry display elevated risk for this serious fungal infection. Here, we interrogated the genomes of Wisconsin (WI) Hmong b...

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Main Authors: Richard M. Merkhofer, Mary B. O’Neill, Donny Xiong, Nydiaris Hernandez-Santos, Hannah Dobson, J. Scott Fites, Abigail C. Shockey, Marcel Wuethrich, Caitlin S. Pepperell, Bruce S. Klein
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Published: American Society for Microbiology 2019
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/91eb12aeeb194bb5b05e852023c0da39
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