Additionally, genomewide association studies have implicated LRRK2 in mycobacterial immunopathology and identified LRRK2 as a risk factor for inflammatory responses in leprosy, an infection by the intracellular pathogen Mycobacterium leprae (Zhang et al, 2009; Wang et al, 2015; Fava et al, 2016) as well as Mtb (Wang et al, 2018). Here, LRRK2 is linked to infection.