Patterns of polymorphism in genomic regions flanking three highly polymorphic surface antigens in Plasmodium falciparum

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 159, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 1-6

  Amodu, Olukemi K ^a,b   Hartl, Daniel L ^a   Roy, Scott William ^a,c  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IBADAN   (Nigeria)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Balancing selection; Diversifying selection; Population genetics; Population history

Indexed keywords

CIRCUMSPOROZOITE PROTEIN; MEROZOITE SURFACE PROTEIN 1; MEROZOITE SURFACE PROTEIN 2; NUCLEOTIDE;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FLANKING REGION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; ISOLATION PROCEDURE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; BASE SEQUENCE; GENETICS, POPULATION; HUMANS; MEROZOITE SURFACE PROTEIN 1; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

EID: 41549147751     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.molbiopara.2007.12.004     Document Type: Article

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