Local adaptation in populations of Mycobacterium tuberculosis endemic to the Indian Ocean Rim
Fabrizio Menardo, Liliana K. Rutaihwa, Michaela Zwyer, Sònia Borrell, Iñaki Comas, Emilyn Costa Conceição, Mireia Coscollá, Helen Suzanne Cox, Moses Lutaakome Joloba, Horng-Yunn Dou, Julia Feldmann, Lukas Fenner, Janet Fyfe, Qian Gao, Darı́o Garcı́a de Viedma, , Sébastien Gagneux
The paper analyzes whole genome sequences of Mycobacterium tuberculosis lineages L1 and L3 to show South Asia's role in their dispersion and identify local adaptation at the esxH locus.
F1000Research · Feb 1, 2021Peer-reviewedGenomics