In a first-time-ever genome-wide association study (GWAS) of leprosy and the largest GWAS effort on infectious diseases in the world, scientists at the Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS) and 26 institutes in China found seven genes that can cause people to become susceptible to leprosy. The discovery of these genes - known as CCDC122, C13orf31, NOD2, TNFSF15, HLA-DR, RIPK2 and LRRK2 - highlights the important role of the innate immune response in the development of leprosy... 
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