Ancient DNA study reveals HLA susceptibility locus for leprosy in medieval Europeans

Leprosy, caused by infection with Mycobacterium leprae, was common in Europe in the Middle Ages. Here, Krause-Kyora et al. analyze ancient DNA from a medieval Danish leprosarium to assemble 10 complete bacterial genomes and perform association analysis of the DRB1*15:01 allele with risk of leprosy i...

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Auteurs principaux:	Ben Krause-Kyora, Marcel Nutsua, Lisa Boehme, Federica Pierini, Dorthe Dangvard Pedersen, Sabin-Christin Kornell, Dmitriy Drichel, Marion Bonazzi, Lena Möbus, Peter Tarp, Julian Susat, Esther Bosse, Beatrix Willburger, Alexander H. Schmidt, Jürgen Sauter, Andre Franke, Michael Wittig, Amke Caliebe, Michael Nothnagel, Stefan Schreiber, Jesper L. Boldsen, Tobias L. Lenz, Almut Nebel
Format:	article
Langue:	EN
Publié:	Nature Portfolio 2018
Sujets:	Science Q
Accès en ligne:	https://doaj.org/article/8fa5ee6a3c694f099a3d3800433d8665
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Ancient DNA study reveals HLA susceptibility locus for leprosy in medieval Europeans

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