[Leprosy: a paradigm for the study of human genetic susceptibility to infectious diseases].

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Fifty years ago, the first identification of a non Mendelian genetic contribution to the development of a common infectious disease, i.e. the association between malaria and sickle-cell trait, was shown using a supervised approach which tests a limited number of candidate genes selected by hypothesis. Since then, the few genes that were convincingly associated with susceptibility to human infectious diseases were...

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