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SUBMITTER: Inskip SA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4430215 | biostudies-literature | 2015
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Inskip Sarah A SA Taylor G Michael GM Zakrzewski Sonia R SR Mays Simon A SA Pike Alistair W G AW Llewellyn Gareth G Williams Christopher M CM Lee Oona Y-C OY Wu Houdini H T HH Minnikin David E DE Besra Gurdyal S GS Stewart Graham R GR
PloS one 20150513 5
We have examined a 5th to 6th century inhumation from Great Chesterford, Essex, UK. The incomplete remains are those of a young male, aged around 21-35 years at death. The remains show osteological evidence of lepromatous leprosy (LL) and this was confirmed by lipid biomarker analysis and ancient DNA (aDNA) analysis, which provided evidence for both multi-copy and single copy loci from the Mycobacterium leprae genome. Genotyping showed the strain belonged to the 3I lineage, but the Great Chester ...[more]