MAFB and tuberculosis: Among more than 10 GWASs reporting TB-associated loci to date, Mahasirimongkol et al. demonstrated that v-maf avian musculoaponeurotic fibrosarcoma oncogene homolog B (MAFB) was located in the neighborhood of a single nucleotide polymorphism associated with TB onset younger than 45 years old in Thai and Japanese populations (Mahasirimongkol et al., 2012).