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

• 主要な著者: Nora Cardona-Castro (著者), Edwin Cortés (著者), Camilo Beltrán (著者), Marcela Romero (著者), Jaime E Badel-Mogollón (著者), Gabriel Bedoya (著者)
• フォーマット: 図書
• 出版事項: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• 主題: article
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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...