On the origin of leprosy

Science

Volumn 308, Issue 5724, 2005, Pages 1040-1042

  Monot, Marc ^a   Honoré, Nadine ^a   Garnier, Thierry ^a   Araoz, Romulo ^a   Coppée, Jean Yves ^a   Lacroix, Céline ^a   Sow, Samba ^b   Spencer, John S ^c   Truman, Richard W ^d   Williams, Diana L ^d   Gelber, Robert ^e   Virmond, Marcos ^f   Flageul, Béatrice ^g   Cho, Sang Nae ^h   Ji, Baohong ⁱ   Paniz Mondolfi, Alberto ^j   Convit, Jacinto ^j   Young, Saroj ^k   Fine, Paul E ^k   Rasolofo, Voahangy ^l   Brennan, Patrick J ^c   Cole, Stewart T ^a   more..

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^b Centre National d'Appui a la Lutte Contre la Maladie   (Mali)

^c Immunology and Pathology   (United States)

^d LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e Leonard Wood Memorial Center for Leprosy Research Philippines   (Philippines)

^f INSTITUTO LAURO DE SOUZA LIMA   (Brazil)

^g SAINT LOUIS HOSPITAL   (France)

^h Yonsei University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

ⁱ PITIÉ SALPÊTRIÈRE HOSPITAL   (France)

^j INSTITUTO DE BIOMEDICINA   (Venezuela)

^k LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^l INSTITUT PASTEUR DE MADAGASCAR   (Madagascar)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; CLONING; GENES; GENETIC ENGINEERING; NEUROLOGY; PATHOLOGY;

HUMAN MIGRATION; LEPROSY; MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE; SINGLE-NULCEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

DISEASES;

GENOMIC DNA;

LEPROSY; MEDICINE;

AFRICA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CLONAL VARIATION; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; EUROPE; GENE REPLICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMAN; INDIA; LEPROSY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALMONELLA TYPHI; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; UNITED STATES;

AFRICA; AMERICAS; ASIA; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; EUROPE; EVOLUTION; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HISTORY, 18TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HISTORY, MEDIEVAL; HUMANS; INTERSPERSED REPETITIVE SEQUENCES; LEPROSY; MINISATELLITE REPEATS; MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PSEUDOGENES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE;

EID: 20844450995     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science/1109759     Document Type: Article

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31. We thank S. Brisse, R. Brosch, S. V. Gordon, R. Davies, and C. Morey for their help, advice, and encouragement, and the patients and staff of the various leprosy clinics for their invaluable participation. The DNA sequences of SNP-containing regions have been deposited at GenBank with accession numbers AY960580 to AY960582. This work received the financial support of the Institut Pasteur, the Association Française Raoul Follereau, Lepra, the Consortium National de Recherche en Génomique (RNG program), and the NIH National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (grant RO1-AI47197-01A1 and contract NO1-AI25469).