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Leprosy and the adaptation of human toll-like receptor 1.
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Leprosy is an infectious disease caused by the obligate intracellular pathogen Mycobacterium leprae and remains endemic in many parts of the world. Despite several major studies on susceptibility to leprosy, few genomic loci have been replicated independently. We have conducted an association analysis of more than 1,500 individuals from different case-control and family studies, and observed consistent associations between genetic variants in both TLR1 and the HLA-DRB1/DQA1 regions with susce...
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- Peer reviewed
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- 10.1371/journal.ppat.1000979
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- Public Library of Science
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- PLoS pathogens More from this journal
- Volume:
- 6
- Issue:
- 7
- Pages:
- e1000979
- Publication date:
- 2010-01-01
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1553-7374
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1553-7366
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English
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- Copyright date:
- 2010
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- © 2010 Wong et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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