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

2020-02-03 infectious diseases Title + abstract only
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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 association study of leprosy in 622 affected offspring from Vietnam, followed by replication in an independent sample of 1189 leprosy cases and 671 controls of the same ethnic origin. The most significant r...

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