Polymorphisms in mitochondrial ribosomal protein S5 (MRPS5) are associated with leprosy risk in Chinese.

• Main Authors: Yan Xing (Author), Jun He (Author), Yan Wen (Author), Jian Liu (Author), Yuangang You (Author), Xiaoman Weng (Author), Lianchao Yuan (Author), Li Xiong (Author), Xiaohua Chen (Author), Ying Zhang (Author), Huan-Ying Li (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z.
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Leprosy is an infectious disease caused by Mycobacterium leprae (M. leprae), with about 210,000 new cases per year worldwide. Although numerous risk loci have been uncovered by genome-wide association studies, the effects of common genetic variants are relatively modest. To identify possible new gen...