We observed nominal significant association with TB risk in Chinese samples for rs557011 and rs9271378 (located between HLA-DQA1 and HLA-DRB1, P < 0.05 and with a consistent direction of effect, Supplementary Table 4), but failed to replicate the association for rs9272785 (located in HLA-DQA1). Here, HLA-DRB1 is linked to tuberculosis.