Susceptibility to non-tuberculous mycobacterial disease is influenced by rs1518111 in IL10

Although exposure to potentially pathogenic nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) via soil and domestic water supplies is common, pulmonary infection and disease are confined to a small proportion of older individuals. Previously, alleles of a polymorphism in IL10 (rs1800896) were associated with NTM di...

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Main Authors: Halstrom, S., Thomson, R., Goullee, H., Baltic, S., Allcock, R., Temple, S., Price, Patricia
Format: Journal Article
Published: Elsevier Inc. 2017
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/54482
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Summary:Although exposure to potentially pathogenic nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) via soil and domestic water supplies is common, pulmonary infection and disease are confined to a small proportion of older individuals. Previously, alleles of a polymorphism in IL10 (rs1800896) were associated with NTM disease and we demonstrated elevated production of IL-10 by blood leukocytes from patients with pulmonary NTM. Here seven additional polymorphisms in IL10 were investigated in a larger cohort of Caucasian controls and patients with pulmonary NTM disease. This demonstrated a significant association between pulmonary NTM disease and one polymorphism (rs1518111) in strong linkage disequilibrium with rs1800896.