Natural selection of FLT1 alleles and their association with malaria resistance in utero

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 38, 2008, Pages 14488-14491

  Muehlenbachs, Atis ^a,b   Fried, Michal ^a,b   Lachowitzer, Jeff ^a   Mutabingwa, Theonest K ^a,c   Duffy, Patrick E ^a,b  

^a SEATTLE BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Tanzania)

Author keywords

Angiogenesis; Parasitology; Placenta; Plasmodium falciparum; Pregnancy

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; DINUCLEOTIDE; RNA; VASCULOTROPIN RECEPTOR 1;

ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DNA EXTRACTION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LOCATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MALARIA; NATURAL SELECTION; PARITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; TROPHOBLAST; UNTRANSLATED REGION;

ABORTION, SPONTANEOUS; ALLELES; BIRTH ORDER; DINUCLEOTIDE REPEATS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, INNATE; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFLAMMATION; MALARIA; PARITY; PLACENTA DISEASES; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, PARASITIC; SEASONS; SELECTION, GENETIC; TANZANIA; UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR-1;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

EID: 55749097629     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0803657105     Document Type: Article

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