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Chromosome 6q25 is linked to susceptibility to leprosy in a Vietnamese population.
Nature genetics - 1 Mar 2003
Mira Marcelo T, Alcaïs Alexandre, Van Thuc Nguyen, Thai Vu Hong, Huong Nguyen Thu, Ba Nguyen Ngoc, Verner Andrei, Hudson Thomas J, Abel Laurent, Schurr Erwin
Abstract excerpt
Leprosy, a chronic infectious disease caused by Mycobacterium leprae, affects an estimated 700,000 persons each year. Clinically, leprosy can be categorized as paucibacillary or multibacillary disease. These clinical forms develop in persons that are intrinsically susceptible to leprosy per se, that is, leprosy independent of its specific clinical manifestation. We report here on a genome-wide search for loci...
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