Genome-wide linkage analysis of malaria infection intensity and mild disease

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 0393-0400

  Timmann, Christian ^a,b   Evans, Jennifer A ^a,c   König, Inke R ^b   Kleensang, André ^b   Rüschendorf, Franz ^d   Lenzen, Julia ^a   Sievertsen, Jürgen ^a   Becker, Christian ^d,e   Enuameh, Yeetey ^c   Kwakye, Kingsley Osei ^c   Opoku, Ernest ^c   Browne, Edmund N L ^f   Ziegler, Andreas ^b   Nürnberg, Peter ^d,e   Horstmann, Rolf D ^a  

^a BERNHARD NOCHT INSTITUTE FOR TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

^c KUMASI CENTRE FOR COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH IN TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Ghana)

^d MAX DELBRÜCK CENTER FOR MOLECULAR MEDICINE   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^f KWAME NKRUMAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Ghana)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMODIAQUINE; CHLOROQUINE; HEMOGLOBIN C; HEMOGLOBIN S;

ALPHA THALASSEMIA; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 10P; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENDEMIC DISEASE; FEVER; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENOME; GLUCOSE 6 PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE DEFICIENCY; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; LINKAGE ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; PARASITOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; SIBLING; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; BLOOD; CHILD; CHROMOSOME 10; COHORT ANALYSIS; DNA MICROARRAY; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; GHANA; HOSPITALIZATION; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; NEGRO; PARASITEMIA; PATHOLOGY; PREVALENCE; RURAL POPULATION;

AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CHILD; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 10; COHORT STUDIES; ENDEMIC DISEASES; GENETIC MARKERS; GENOME, HUMAN; GENOTYPE; GHANA; HUMANS; LINKAGE (GENETICS); LOD SCORE; MALARIA; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PARASITEMIA; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PREVALENCE; RURAL POPULATION; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SIBLINGS; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 34047237074     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.0030048     Document Type: Article

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