[The predominance of the mainly Russian spoligotypes among the non-Beijing strains (LAM-RUS and Ural-1) in this study along with previously demonstrated prevalence of the Russia-specific subtype of the Beijing family in Kyrgyz prison (Mokrousov et al., 2009) suggest that the current population structure of M. tuberculosis in Kyrgyzstan has been mainly formed within the course of the 20th century when the country was a part of the Russian Empire and Soviet Union.]. Sentence from MEDLINE/PubMed, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
Gene-disease associations inferred from text-mining the literature.
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