[Our data, in combination with a report by others show that the TLR2-P631H allele could be associated with protection to meningococcal meningitis, suggest that by dominantly inhibiting the response of cells important in the immune response this mutant might confer either protection or susceptibility to meningitis or tuberculosis, respectively.]. Sentence from MEDLINE/PubMed, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
Gene-disease associations inferred from text-mining the literature.
DisGeNET evidence - LITERATURE