LRRK2 and RIPK2 Variants in the NOD 2-Mediated Signaling Pathway Are Associated with Susceptibility to Mycobacterium leprae in Indian Populations

• Patrick Marcinek ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Patrick Marcinek, Aditya Nath Jha, Vidyagouri Shinde

  Affiliation Institute of Tropical Medicine, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

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• Aditya Nath Jha ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Patrick Marcinek, Aditya Nath Jha, Vidyagouri Shinde

  Affiliation CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad, India

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• Vidyagouri Shinde ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Patrick Marcinek, Aditya Nath Jha, Vidyagouri Shinde

  Affiliation LEPRA- Blue Peter Public Health and Research Centre, Hyderabad, India

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• Arun Sundaramoorthy,

  Affiliation Department of Zoology, School of Life sciences, Bharathiar University, Coimbatore, India

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• Raja Rajkumar,

  Affiliation CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad, India

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• Naveen Chandra Suryadevara,

  Affiliation LEPRA- Blue Peter Public Health and Research Centre, Hyderabad, India

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• Sanjeev Kumar Neela,

  Affiliation LEPRA- Blue Peter Public Health and Research Centre, Hyderabad, India

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• Hoang van Tong,

  Affiliation Institute of Tropical Medicine, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

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• Vellingiri Balachander,

  Affiliation Department of Zoology, School of Life sciences, Bharathiar University, Coimbatore, India

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• Vijaya Lakshmi Valluri ,

  ¶These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation LEPRA- Blue Peter Public Health and Research Centre, Hyderabad, India

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• Kumarasamy Thangaraj ,

  ¶These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad, India

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• Thirumalaisamy P Velavan

  * E-mail: velavan@medizin.uni-tuebingen.de

  ¶These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Institute of Tropical Medicine, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

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