Little Evidence for Genetic Susceptibility to Influenza A (H5N1) from Family Clustering Data

Pitzer, Virginia E.; Olsen, Sonja J.; Bergstrom, Carl T.; Dowell, Scott F.; Lipsitch, Marc

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Little Evidence for Genetic Susceptibility to Influenza A (H5N1) from Family Clustering Data

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Jul 2007

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Emerg Infect Dis. 13(7):1074-1076.

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Pitzer, Virginia E. ; Olsen, Sonja J. ; Bergstrom, Carl T. ; Dowell, Scott F. ; Lipsitch, Marc ;

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The apparent clustering of human cases of influenza A (H5N1) among blood relatives has been considered as evidence of genetic variation in susceptibility. We show that, by chance alone, a high proportion of clusters are expected to be limited to blood relatives when infection is a rare event.

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Little Evidence for Genetic Susceptibility to Influenza A (H5N1) from Family Clustering Data

Little Evidence for Genetic Susceptibility to Influenza A (H5N1) from Family Clustering Data

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