Prospective identification of malaria parasite genes under balancing selection

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2009, Pages

  Tetteh, Kevin K A ^a   Stewart, Lindsay B ^a   Ochola, Lynette Isabella ^a,b,c   Amambua Ngwa, Alfred ^b   Thomas, Alan W ^d   Marsh, Kevin ^c   Weedall, Gareth D ^a,e   Conway, David J ^a,b  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL LABORATORIES   (Gambia)

^c KENYA MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Kenya)

^d BIOMEDICAL PRIMATE RESEARCH CENTRE   (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMA1 ANTIGEN; PROTEIN MRSP LIKE; PROTEIN MRSP1; PROTEIN MRSP2; PROTEIN MRSP3; PROTEIN MRSP4; PROTEIN MRSP5; PROTEIN MSP10; PROTEIN MSP3/6 LIKE; PROTEIN MSP6; PROTEIN MSP7; PROTEIN MSP9; PROTEIN PF113; PROTEIN PF12; PROTEIN PF34; PROTEIN PF38; PROTEIN PF92; PROTEIN RAMA; PROTEIN RAP2; PROTEIN RAP3; PROTEIN RHOP148; PROTEIN SERA 5; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN; RAP1 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLELE; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE INSERTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CORRELATION; GENETIC SELECTION; MALARIA; MEROZOITE; MICROBIAL GENETICS; NONHUMAN; PARASITE ISOLATION; PLASMODIUM; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM REICHENOWI; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SPECIES COMPARISON; ANIMAL; GAMBIA; GENE; GENETICS; HUMAN; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; PARASITOLOGY;

PAN; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

ANIMALS; GAMBIA; GENE FREQUENCY; GENES, PROTOZOAN; HUMANS; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SELECTION (GENETICS);

EID: 65949117635     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0005568     Document Type: Article

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