Genetic polymorphisms in TLR4, CR1 and Duffy genes are not associated with malaria resistance in patients from Baixo Amazonas region, Brazil

Genetics and Molecular Research

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1011-1019

  Soares, S C ^a,b   Abe Sandes K ^c,d   Nascimento Filho, V B ^b   Nunes, F M F ^a   Silva Jr , W A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSIDADE DO ESTADO DO AMAZONAS   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSIDADE DO ESTADO DA BAHIA   (Brazil)

^d INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Brazilian population; Complement receptor 1; Duffy blood group; Genetic polymorphisms; Malaria; Toll like receptor

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; ARGININE; ASPARTIC ACID; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C3B RECEPTOR; CYSTEINE; DNA; GLUTAMINE; GLYCINE; LYSINE; THREONINE; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 4; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GATA 1;

ANTIGEN PRESENTING CELL; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DNA SEQUENCE; DUFFY GENE; ERYTHROCYTE; GENE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMAN; INFECTION RESISTANCE; MALARIA; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM;

ANIMALS; BRAZIL; DUFFY BLOOD-GROUP SYSTEM; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; MALARIA; MUTATION; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; RECEPTORS, COMPLEMENT 3B; TOLL-LIKE RECEPTOR 4;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM VIVAX;

EID: 56749180710     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16765680     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4238/vol7-4gmr439     Document Type: Article

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