Genetic differentiation of populations residing in areas of high malaria endemicity in India

Journal of Genetics

Volumn 88, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 77-80

  Sinha, Swapnil ^a   Arya, Vandana ^b   Agarwal, Sarita ^b   Indian Genome Variation Consortium, ^c   Habib, Saman ^a  

^a CENTRAL DRUG RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

^b SANJAY GANDHI POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^c CSIR INSTITUTE OF GENOMICS AND INTEGRATIVE BIOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Falciparium malaria; Human genetics; Indian populations; Single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP); Tumour necrosis factor

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ENDEMIC DISEASE; GENETICS; HUMAN; INDIA; MALARIA; POPULATION GENETICS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ENDEMIC DISEASES; GENETICS, POPULATION; HUMANS; INDIA; MALARIA; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE;

EID: 69449092680     PISSN: 00221333     EISSN: 09737731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12041-009-0010-5     Document Type: Article

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