KCNMA1 and infection: Finally, the KCNMA1 gene (potassium calcium-activated channel subfamily M alpha 1) was recently reported by Tabone O., et al. [23] to be involved in the clinical TB stage, and was also related to TB in vivo studies of gene expression of lung granulomas isolated from sham-vaccinated nonhuman primates at 10 weeks after infection with M. tuberculosis [66].