Genetic diversity and selection at the Plasmodium vivax apical membrane antigen-1 (PvAMA-1) locus in a Sri Lankan population

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 939-947

  Gunasekera, Anusha M ^c   Wickramarachchi, Thilan ^a   Neafsey, Daniel E ^b   Ganguli, Ishani ^c   Perera, Lakshman ^a,d   Premaratne, Prasad H ^a   Hartl, Daniel ^e   Handunnetti, Shiroma M ^a   Udagama Randeniya, Preethi V ^a   Wirth, Dyann F ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOMBO   (Sri Lanka)

^b BROAD INSTITUTE OF MIT AND HARVARD   (United States)

^c HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF RUHUNA   (Sri Lanka)

^e HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Genetic diversity; Plasmodium vivax; Recombination; Selection

Indexed keywords

APICAL MEMBRANE ANTIGEN 1; NUCLEOTIDE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA EXTRACTION; DRUG TARGETING; ENDEMIC DISEASE; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC MODEL; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; POPULATION RESEARCH; PROTEIN DOMAIN; SAMPLING; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SRI LANKA;

ADOLESCENT; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, PROTOZOAN; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MALARIA, VIVAX; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; SELECTION (GENETICS); SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SRI LANKA; VARIATION (GENETICS);

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM VIVAX;

EID: 34047221726     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msm013     Document Type: Article

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