Table 1. Demographic and clinical characteristics of the case and control groups selected for the present study.

VARIABLE	TUBERCULOSIS (n = 280)	CONTROL (n = 138)	p-value
Age (years)	47 ± 21.1	52 ± 14.4	0.052 a
Sex (male/female)	134 (48%) / 146 (52%)	21 (15%) / 117 (85%)	1.33x10-11 b
AFR ancestry	0.254 ± 0.12	0.216 ± 0.11	0.004 c
EUR ancestry	0.409 ± 0.13	0.499 ± 0.17	7.56x10-7 c
AMR ancestry	0.337 ± 0.13	0.285 ± 0.14	0.001 c

^aMann-Whitney test

^bFisher's exact test

^cMultivariate regression logistic with sex as a covariate. The data are presented as the median ± standard deviation.