A major susceptibility locus for leprosy in India maps to chromosome 10p13

Nature Genetics

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 439-441

  Siddiqui, M Ruby ^a   Meisner, Sarah ^a   Tosh, Kerrie ^a   Balakrishnan, Karuppiah ^b   Ghei, Satish ^c   Fisher, Simon E ^a   Golding, Marina ^a   Shanker Narayan, Nallakandy P ^d   Sitaraman, Thiagarajan ^e   Sengupta, Utpal ^c   Pitchappan, Ramasamy ^b   Hill, Adrian V S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b MADURAI KAMARAJ UNIVERSITY   (India)

^c Central Jalma Research Institute for Leprosy   (India)

^d Leprosy Project   (India)

^e Hindu Mission Hospital   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 10P; CHROMOSOME MAP; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; GENE SEGREGATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HUMAN; LEPROSY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 10; GENETIC MARKERS; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HLA ANTIGENS; HUMANS; INDIA; LEPROSY; PREVALENCE;

MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE;

EID: 0035065541     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/86958     Document Type: Article

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