Role of Cytokine’s Functional Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms in Tuberculosis

authors:

avatar Mehrnaz Narooie-Nejad ORCID 1 , 2 , *

Genetics of Non Communicable Disease Research Center, Zahedan University of Medical Sciences, Zahedan, Iran
Department of Genetics, School of Medicine, Zahedan University of Medical Sciences, Zahedan, Iran

how to cite: Narooie-Nejad M. Role of Cytokine’s Functional Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms in Tuberculosis. Gene Cell Tissue. 2017;4(1):e13337. https://doi.org/10.17795/gct-45222.

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