Human Genetic Ancestral Composition Correlates with the Origin of Mycobacterium leprae Strains in a Leprosy Endemic Population

The genetics of human migrations: Our ancestors migration out of Africa has left traces in our genomes that explain how they adapted to new environments

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A predictive signature gene set for discriminating active from latent tuberculosis in Warao Amerindian children

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First evidence for the contribution of the genetic variations of BRCA1-interacting protein 1 (BRIP1) to the genetic susceptibility of cervical cancer

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Single nucleotide polymorphism in CPT1B and CPT2 genes and its association with blood carnitine levels in acute myocardial infarction patients

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Mycobacterium leprae in Colombia described by SNP7614 in gyrA, two minisatellites and geography

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Detection and Strain Typing of Ancient Mycobacterium leprae from a Medieval Leprosy Hospital

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Genome-Wide Comparison of Medieval and Modern Mycobacterium leprae

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Linkage disequilibrium pattern and age-at-diagnosis are critical for replicating genetic associations across ethnic groups in leprosy

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Ancient-DNA reveals an Asian type of Mycobacterium leprae in medieval Scandinavia

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Molecular Drug Susceptibility Testing and Genotyping of Mycobacterium leprae Strains from South America

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Chromosome region 2p25 is linked and associated with type 1 diabetes in Colombia

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Genotyping of Mycobacterium leprae from Brazilian leprosy patients suggests the occurrence of reinfection or of bacterial population shift during disease relapse

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Probable Zoonotic Leprosy in the Southern United States

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Dengue hemorrhagic fever is associated with polymorphisms in JAK1

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Leprosy and the Human Genome

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Rapid Variable-Number Tandem-Repeat Genotyping for Mycobacterium leprae Clinical Specimens

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Ancestry informative markers and admixture proportions in northeastern Mexico

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Comparative genomic and phylogeographic analysis of Mycobacterium leprae

(2009) Marc Monot et al.   NATURE GENETICS

Genomewide Association Study of Leprosy

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Evolution, Population Structure, and Phylogeography of Genetically Monomorphic Bacterial Pathogens

(2008) Mark Achtman   Annual Review of Microbiology

Classification of leprosy into multibacillary and paucibacillary groups: an analysis

(2008) Om Parkash   FEMS IMMUNOLOGY AND MEDICAL MICROBIOLOGY

Leprosy as a genetic model for susceptibility to common infectious diseases

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Geographic Patterns of Genome Admixture in Latin American Mestizos

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