“…Thus, TAP genes represent possible susceptibility factors for some autoimmune diseases (Vinasco et al, 1998). Polymorphisms in such genes have been associated with various diseases, such as tuberculosis (Wang et al, 2012), ankylosing spondylitis (Feng et al, 2009), leprosy (Shinde et al, 2013), idiopathic bronchiectasis (Doğru et al, 2007), and cystic fibrosis (Ozbaş-Gerçeker et al, 2002). However, no study has investigated the association between TAP1 sequence variants and AA.…”