Pyruvate kinase deficiency in mice protects against malaria

Nature Genetics

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 357-362

  Min Oo, Gundula ^a   Fortin, Anny ^a   Tam, Mi Fong ^b   Nante, André ^c   Stevenson, Mary M ^b   Gros, Philippe ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF THE MCGILL UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

^c NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; PYRUVATE KINASE;

ALLELE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE DISORDER; BLOOD; CHROMOSOME 17; CHROMOSOME 3; CHROMOSOME 8; CHROMOSOME 9; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CONGENIC STRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HETEROZYGOTE; MALARIA; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; NONHUMAN; PARASITE SURVIVAL; PLASMODIUM CHABAUDI; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEFICIENCY; PYRUVATE KINASE DEFICIENCY; RETICULOCYTOSIS; SEGREGATION ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPLENOMEGALY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; ERYTHROCYTES; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; IMMUNITY, NATURAL; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MALARIA; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED A; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED DBA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PARASITEMIA; PLASMODIUM CHABAUDI; PYRUVATE KINASE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SPLENOMEGALY;

ANIMALIA; PLASMODIUM CHABAUDI; PROTOZOA;

EID: 0345689386     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng1260     Document Type: Article

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