Journal article
Joint sequencing of human and pathogen genomes reveals the genetics of pneumococcal meningitis
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Streptococcus pneumoniae is a common nasopharyngeal colonizer, but can also cause life-threatening invasive diseases such as empyema, bacteremia and meningitis. Genetic variation of host and pathogen is known to play a role in invasive pneumococcal disease, though to what extent is unknown. In a genome-wide association study of human and pathogen we show that human variation explains almost half of variation in susceptibility to pneumococcal meningitis and one-third of variation in severity, ...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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+ NIHR Oxford Biomedical Research Centre
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Funding agency for:
Knight, JC
Grant:
204969/Z/16/Z
Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- Springer Nature Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Nature Communications Journal website
- Volume:
- 10
- Pages:
- Article number: 2176
- Publication date:
- 2019-05-15
- Acceptance date:
- 2019-04-11
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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2041-1723
- Source identifiers:
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923206
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- 2019-03-06
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- Copyright holder:
- Lees et al
- Copyright date:
- 2019
- Notes:
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