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Background Genetic factors may affect the susceptibility to tuberculosis, but no specific genes governing susceptibility have been identified. In mice, natural resistance to infection with some mycobacteria is influenced by the gene for natural-resistance–associated macrophage protein 1 (Nramp1 ), but the role of the human homologue of this gene, NRAMP1, in tuberculosis is unknown. We typed polymorphisms in NRAMP1 in a case–control study of tuberculosis in the Gambia, West Africa.

Methods Sequence-specific oligonucleotide hybridization and microsatellite analysis were used to type NRAMP1 polymorphisms in 410 adults (mean age, 34.7 years) with smear-positive pulmonary tuberculosis and 417 ethnically matched, healthy controls. Patients with human immunodeficiency virus infection were excluded.

Results Four NRAMP1 polymorphisms were each significantly associated with tuberculosis. Subjects who were heterozygous for two NRAMP1 polymorphisms in intron 4 and the 3' untranslated region of the gene were particularly overrepresented among those with tuberculosis, as compared with those with the most common NRAMP1 genotype (odds ratio, 4.07; 95 percent confidence interval, 1.86 to 9.12; chi-square = 14.58; P<0.001).

Conclusions Genetic variation in NRAMP1 affects susceptibility to tuberculosis in West Africans.

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From the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Oxford University, Oxford, United Kingdom (R.B., C.R., A.V.S.H.), and the Medical Research Council Laboratories, Fajara, the Gambia (T.C., K.P.W.J.M., H.C.W.).

Address reprint requests to Professor Hill at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Windmill Rd., Oxford OX3 7BN, United Kingdom.

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