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Linkage of leprosy susceptibility to Parkinson's disease genes.
International journal of leprosy and other mycobacterial diseases : official organ of the International Leprosy Association - 1 Jun 2004
Buschman Ellen, Skamene Emil
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In early 2003, an international team of scientists conducted a genome scan in Vietnamese multiplex leprosy families and found that susceptibility to leprosy was significantly linked to region q25 on the long arm of chromosome 6. Further confirmation of the chromosome 6 locus was provided by high-resolution linkage mapping in simplex leprosy families. Now, in a continuation of these findings, the team has...
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