In the association analysis between leprosy patients and healthy individuals, they found six significant markers for the risk of developing leprosy in the population studied: rs2505901 (pre-mir938), rs639174 (DROSHA), rs636832 (AGO1), rs10739971 (pri-let -7a1), rs12904 (miR200C) and rs10035440 (DROSHA). Here, AGO1 is linked to leprosy.