Jeremy Manry, Quentin Vincent et al. report a genome-wide association study for susceptibility to Buruli ulcer in a rural population from the West African country of Benin. They identify two independently associated variants within LncRNA genes and confirm the protective effect of a missense variant in the bacterial autophagy gene ATG16L1.
- Jeremy Manry
- Quentin B. Vincent
- Alexandre Alcaïs
