The observation made for the 11 SNPs on 2305 samples (829 leprosy patients and 1476 controls) from northern India was also made in a geographically unrelated Indian population of 380 individuals (184 leprosy patients and 196 controls) from Orissa in East India with a consistent association for SNP rs10945859, located 6.67 kb upstream of PACRG gene, rs9347683 (−258) within the core promoter region of PARK2 gene and SNPs rs9347684 (−3024), rs9346929, rs4709648, rs12215676, rs10806765, rs6936373, rs1333957, rs9365492, rs9355403, located within 63.8 kb upstream region of the PARK2 gene. The gene discussed is PRKN; the disease is leprosy.