Ancient Skeletal Evidence for Leprosy in India (2000 B.C.)

Gwen Robbins; V. Mushrif Tripathy; V. N. Misra; R. K. Mohanty; V. S. Shinde; Kelsey M. Gray; Malcolm D. Schug

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0005669

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Ancient Skeletal Evidence for Leprosy in India (2000 B.C.)

Gwen Robbins ,

* E-mail: Robbinsgm@appstate.edu

Affiliation Department of Anthropology, Appalachian State University, Boone, North Carolina, United States of America
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V. Mushrif Tripathy,

Affiliation Department of Anthropology, Deccan College, Deemed University, Pune, India
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V. N. Misra,

Affiliation Indian Society for Prehistoric and Quaternary Studies, Deccan College, Deemed University, Pune, India
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R. K. Mohanty,

Affiliation Department of Anthropology, Deccan College, Deemed University, Pune, India
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V. S. Shinde,

Affiliation Department of Anthropology, Deccan College, Deemed University, Pune, India
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Kelsey M. Gray,

Affiliation Department of Anthropology, Appalachian State University, Boone, North Carolina, United States of America
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Malcolm D. Schug

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of North Carolina Greensboro, Greensboro, North Carolina, United States of America
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Ancient Skeletal Evidence for Leprosy in India (2000 B.C.)

Gwen Robbins,
V. Mushrif Tripathy,
V. N. Misra,
R. K. Mohanty,
V. S. Shinde,
Kelsey M. Gray,
Malcolm D. Schug

Published: May 27, 2009
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0005669

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Publisher's Note: Endnote error?

Posted by Robbinsgm on 04 Jun 2009 at 13:48 GMT

This is a more likely time for transmission of communicable diseases such as leprosy than the Late Pleistocene migrations proposed by Pinhasi et al. [8] and thus supports the interpretation of the genetic data proposed by Monot et al. [12].
http://plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0005669#article1.body1.sec4.p7

These two citations should be reversed. Our results support the hypothesis proposed by Pinhasi, not the one proposed by Monot.

Competing interests declared: I am the first author

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