Family-based genome-wide association study of leprosy in Vietnam.

Leprosy is a chronic infectious disease of the skin and peripheral nerves with a strong genetic predisposition. Recent genome-wide approaches have identified numerous common variants associated with leprosy, almost all in the Chinese population. We conducted the first family-based genome-wide associ...

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Main Authors: Chaima Gzara, Monica Dallmann-Sauer, Marianna Orlova, Nguyen Van Thuc, Vu Hong Thai, Vinicius M Fava, Marie-Thérèse Bihoreau, Anne Boland, Laurent Abel, Alexandre Alcaïs, Erwin Schurr, Aurélie Cobat
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2020-05-01
Series:PLoS Pathogens
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1008565