CD209 and tuberculosis: Patients homozygous for the CD209 -336GG allele were associated with 2.4-fold protection against cavitory tuberculosis disease (n = 557, Pearson's 2×2 χ2 = 17.34, P = 0.00003, odds ratio = 0.42, 95%CI 0.27–0.65, PBonferroni corrected = 1.19×10−4)(Figure 1 and Table 3).