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中世と現代のMycobacterium lepraeの全ゲノム比較

Verena J Schuenemann1, Pushpendra Singh, Thomas A Mendum

  • 1Institute for Archaeological Sciences, University of Tübingen, 72070 Tübingen, Germany.

Science (New York, N.Y.)
|June 15, 2013
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中世の骨格からの古代DNAは,Mycobacterium leprae (ハンセン病) のゲノムが1,000年間,著しく保存されていることを明らかにしています. この研究は,アメリカ大陸における麻痺のヨーロッパの起源を追跡し,古代のM. lepraeの遺伝子型を特定します.

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