Genome-wide variation and identification of vaccine targets in the Plasmodium falciparum genome

Nature Genetics

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 126-130

  Mu, Jianbing ^a   Awadalla, Philip ^b   Duan, Junhui ^a   McGee, Kate M ^b   Keebler, Jon ^b   Seydel, Karl ^a   McVean, Gilean A T ^c   Su, Xin Zhuan ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTISERUM; MICROSATELLITE DNA; PARASITE ANTIGEN; VACCINE;

CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA POLYMORPHISM; GENE; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME; MARKER GENE; MICROBIAL GENETICS; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; CELL-FREE SYSTEM; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEMS; DRUG DESIGN; DRUG RESISTANCE; GENOME, PROTOZOAN; HUMANS; IMMUNE SERA; MALARIA VACCINES; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; VARIATION (GENETICS);

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

EID: 33845914565     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: 15461718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng1924     Document Type: Review

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