MBL2 and tuberculosis: In 1,020 controls, this distribution was 723 (70.9%), 234 (22.9%) and 63 (6.2%), respectively (OR = 1.56, 95% CI 1.29–1.90, P = 1.4 × 10−6, with adjustment for age and gender; simulation number = 10,000,000; Table 2), implicating that the individuals bearing medium or low expression haplotype pairs had an increased risk of TB and that the MBL deficiency might play a potential role in susceptibility to TB.