POLE and leprosy: Furthermore, we analyzed the number of variants that were exclusive to the leprosy poles (Pole L being constituted by subtypes BL and LL; Pole T consisting of subtype BT) and to control, as well as those shared between such groups, that is, the intersection between groups, according to the heteroplasmy filtering of > 0.05 and < 0.95 (Fig. 4).