DROSHA and leprosy: The rs639174 variant (DROSHA) and the rs4143815 variant (miR570) is an intronic SNP with a recognized role in transcriptional regulation and are involved in the regulation of the inflammatory response, respectively, and in this study this variants was associated with protection against leprosy per se and MB (Du et al., 2009; Saini et al., 2016; Zhu et al., 2020).