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    Ancient DNA study reveals HLA susceptibility locus for leprosy in medieval Europeans

    Leprosy, a chronic infectious disease caused by Mycobacterium leprae (M. leprae), was very common in Europe till the 16th century. Here, we perform an ancient DNA study on medieval skeletons from Denmark that sho...

    Ben Krause-Kyora, Marcel Nutsua, Lisa Boehme, Federica Pierini in Nature Communications (2018)