Susceptibility to leprosy is associated with PARK2 and PACRG

Nature

Volumn 427, Issue 6975, 2004, Pages 636-640

  Mira, Marcelo T ^a,b   Alcaïs, Alexandre ^c   Van Thuc, Hyugen ^d   Moraes, Milton O ^e   Di Flumeri, Celestino ^a   Thai, Vu Ilong ^d   Phuong, Mai Chi ^d   Huong, Nguyen Thu ^d   Ba, Nguyen Ngoc ^d   Khoa, Pham Xuan ^d   Sarno, Euzenir N ^e   Alter, Andrea ^a   Monipetit, Alexandre ^a   Moraes, Maria E ^f   Moraes, José R ^f   Doré, Carole ^a   Gallant, Caroline J ^a   Lepage, Pierre ^a   Verner, Andrei ^a   Van De Vosse, Esther ^g   Hudson, Thomas J ^a   Abel, Lauront ^c   Schurr, Erwin ^a   more..

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b PONTIFICAL CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF PARANÁ   (Brazil)

^c INSERM   (France)

^d Hospital for Dermato Venereology   (Viet Nam)

^e INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

^f INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE CÂNCER   (Brazil)

^g LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; GENES; GENETIC ENGINEERING;

ALLELES; LEPROSY;

DISEASES;

LEPROSY;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CHROMOSOME 6Q; CONTROLLED STUDY; FAMILY STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; LEPROSY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE; PACRG GENE; PARK2 GENE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATOR GENE; RISK FACTOR; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; VIET NAM;

ALLELES; BRAZIL; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 6; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; LEPROSY; MOLECULAR CHAPERONES; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; UBIQUITIN-PROTEIN LIGASES; VIETNAM;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 10744220764     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature02326     Document Type: Article

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