Genetic loci affecting resistance to human malaria parasites in a West African mosquito vector population

Science

Volumn 298, Issue 5591, 2002, Pages 213-216

  Niaré, Oumou ^a   Markianos, Kyriacos ^a   Volz, Jennifer ^a   Oduol, Frederick ^a   Touré, Abdoulaye ^a   Bagayoko, Magaran ^a   Sangaré, Djibril ^a   Traoré, Sekou F ^a   Wang, Rui ^a   Blass, Claudia ^a   Dolo, Guimogo ^a   Bouaré, Madama ^a   Kafatos, Fotis C ^a   Kruglyak, Leonid ^a   Touré, Yeya T ^a   Vernick, Kenneth D ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD; GENES; GENETIC ENGINEERING; PATHOLOGY;

GENETIC LOCI;

MALARIA CONTROL;

DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DISEASE VECTOR; MALARIA; PARASITE;

AFRICA; ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; ARTICLE; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC RESISTANCE; GENOME; MALARIA; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; ANOPHELES; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; FEMALE; GENES, INSECT; GENETIC MARKERS; GENOME; GENOTYPE; HOST-PARASITE RELATIONS; HUMANS; INSECT VECTORS; KARYOTYPING; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALE; MALI; OVIPOSITION; PHENOTYPE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; VIRULENCE;

AFRICA;

ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; INSECTA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTOZOA;

EID: 0037020123     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1073420     Document Type: Article

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