A study in Kazakhstan found that HLA‐DQA1*03:02, HLA‐DRB1*08:01, and DRB1*08:03 were more frequent in patients carrying drug‐resistant TB, and a potential association between certain HLA alleles and TB was shown in the Kazakh population (Kuranov et al., 2014). Here, HLA-DQA1 is linked to tuberculosis.