Although we did not find any rare variants of PARL and PINK1 to be associated with leprosy (P > 0.05; partially due to the small sample size), one missense variant (rs3732581 [p.V212L], P = 6.434 × 10−5) and one synonymous variant (rs13091 [p.H216], P = 1.058 × 10−4) in PARL and one synonymous variant (rs45530340, [p.L63], P = 2.668 × 10−4) in PINK1 were significantly associated with leprosy per se (Table S3). This evidence concerns the gene PINK1 and leprosy.