leprosy9 min
Leprosy Was in the Americas Before Europeans Arrived
Ancient genomes of Mycobacterium lepromatosis from Canada and Argentina show a second leprosy pathogen circulating in the Americas before contact.
Methodology deep-dives, population spotlights, and engineering notes from the Ancestrify team — qpAdm modelling, ancient DNA panels, and how genetic ancestry analysis really works.
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