Association of tuberculosis risk with genetic polymorphisms of the immune checkpoint genes PDCD1, CTLA-4, and TIM3

• Chi-Wei Liu ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Chi-Wei Liu, Lawrence Shih-Hsin Wu

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, Taoyuan General Hospital, Ministry of Health and Welfare, Taoyuan, Taiwan, Translational Medicine Center, Taoyuan General Hospital, Department of Health and Welfare, Taoyuan, Taiwan

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• Lawrence Shih-Hsin Wu ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Chi-Wei Liu, Lawrence Shih-Hsin Wu

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Graduate Institute of Biomedical Sciences, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan, Center for Allergy, Immunology, and Microbiome (A.I.M.), China Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6275-8368

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• Chou-Jui Lin,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Taoyuan General Hospital, Ministry of Health and Welfare, Taoyuan, Taiwan

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• Hsing-Chu Wu,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Taoyuan General Hospital, Ministry of Health and Welfare, Taoyuan, Taiwan

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• Kuei-Chi Liu,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Taoyuan General Hospital, Ministry of Health and Welfare, Taoyuan, Taiwan

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• Shih-Wei Lee

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: chestman9@gmail.com

  Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, Taoyuan General Hospital, Ministry of Health and Welfare, Taoyuan, Taiwan, Department of Nursing, Yuanpei University of Medical Technology, Hsinchu, Taiwan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8367-8647

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