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Human Genetic Ancestral Composition Correlates with the Origin of Mycobacterium leprae Strains in a Leprosy Endemic Population

Recent reports have suggested that leprosy originated in Africa, extended to Asia and Europe, and arrived in the Americas during European colonization and the African slave trade. Due to colonization, the contemporary Colombian population is an admixture of Native-American, European and African ance...

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Autores principales: Cardona-Castro, Nora, Cortés, Edwin, Beltrán, Camilo, Romero, Marcela, Badel-Mogollón, Jaime E., Bedoya, Gabriel
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4567314/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26360617
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0004045