Chromosome 6q25 is linked to susceptibility to leprosy in a Vietnamese population

Nature Genetics

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 412-415

  Mira, Marcelo T ^a   Alcaïs, Alexandre ^b   Van Thuc, Nguyen ^c   Thai, Vu Hong ^c   Huong, Nguyen Thu ^c   Ba, Nguyen Ngoc ^c   Verner, Andrei ^d   Hudson, Thomas J ^a,d   Abel, Laurent ^b   Schurr, Erwin ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b INSERM   (France)

^c Hospital for Dermato Venereology   (Viet Nam)

^d MCGILL UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALLELE; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOMAL LOCALIZATION; CHROMOSOME 6Q; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENOME; GENOTYPE; HLA SYSTEM; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LEPROSY; LINKAGE ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MICROSATELLITE MARKER; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SIBLING; VIET NAM;

ALLELES; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 10; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 6; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEPROSY; LINKAGE (GENETICS); LOD SCORE; MALE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; VIETNAM;

MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE;

EID: 0037370482     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng1096     Document Type: Article

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