Validation of Pyrosequencing™ for accurate and high throughput estimation of allele frequencies in malaria parasites

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 152, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 213-219

  Cheesman, Sandra ^a   Creasey, Alison ^a   Degnan, Kathryn ^a   Kooij, Taco ^b   Afonso, Ana ^c   Cravo, Pedro ^c   Carter, Richard ^a   Hunt, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c INSTITUTO DE HIGIENE E MEDICINA TROPICAL   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Allele; Malaria; Plasmodium; Quantitation; SNP; Strain

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; HAPLOTYPE; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; MALARIA; MICROBIAL GENETICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; VALIDATION PROCESS; ANIMAL; GENETICS; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; PLASMODIUM CHABAUDI; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; VALIDATION STUDY;

ANIMALS; DNA; GENE FREQUENCY; PLASMODIUM CHABAUDI; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 33847361115     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.molbiopara.2006.12.008     Document Type: Article

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