01468nas a2200265   4500000000100000008004100001260000900042653002500051653001100076653001200087653001600099653001200115100001700127700001300144700001800157700001300175700001600188245007700204856008300281300001100364490000700375050001700382520078900399022001401188       1973                            d  c197310aGenetics, Population10aHumans10aleprosy10aMathematics10aMyanmar1 aBechelli L M1 aBarrai I1 aGarbajosa P G1 aUemura K1 aTamondong C00aCorrelation between leprosy rates in villages different distances apart.  uhttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2481009/pdf/bullwho00175-0118.pdf  a257-600 v48  aBECHELLI19733 a<p>In order to study the role of genetic factors in susceptibility to leprosy infection, the prevalence of leprosy in 118 pairs of Burmese villages different distances apart was investigated. The distribution pattern of the correlation coefficients for leprosy rates was compared with that known to occur for genetic markers under similar conditions. The correlation coefficients decreased rapidly as the distance between the pairs of villages increased and then showed periodicity with distance, becoming negative at almost regular intervals of 4 km: negative values were preponderant for villages more than 25 km apart. Thus with this set of correlations it was not possible to fit a monotonically decreasing function of the type that would fit similar data for a genetic marker</p>  a0042-9686