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Ancestral European roots of Helicobacter pylori in India.
BMC genomics - 20 Jun 2007
Devi S Manjulata, Ahmed Irshad, Francalacci Paolo, Hussain M Abid, Akhter Yusuf, Alvi Ayesha, Sechi Leonardo A, Mégraud Francis, Ahmed Niyaz
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: The human gastric pathogen Helicobacter pylori is co-evolved with its host and therefore, origins and expansion of multiple populations and sub populations of H. pylori mirror ancient human migrations. Ancestral origins of H. pylori in the vast Indian subcontinent are debatable. It is not clear how different waves of human migrations in South Asia shaped the population structure of H. pylori. We tried...
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