Analysis of malaria associated genetic traits in Cabo Verde, a melting pot of European and sub Saharan settlers

Blood Cells, Molecules, and Diseases

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 62-68

  Alves, Joana ^a,b   Machado, Patrícia ^a   Silva, João ^a   Gonçalves, Nilza ^a   Ribeiro, Letícia ^c   Faustino, Paula ^d   do Rosário, Virgílio Estólio ^a   Manco, Licínio ^e   Gusmão, Leonor ^f   Amorim, António ^f   Arez, Ana Paula ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE HIGIENE E MEDICINA TROPICAL   (Portugal)

^b Ministry of Health Praia   (Cape Verde)

^c CENTRO HOSPITALAR E UNIVERSITÁRIO DE COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH DR RICARDO JORGE   (Portugal)

^e UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^f UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Cabo Verde; Glucose 6 Phophate dehydrogenase; Hemoglobin S; Malaria; Pyruvate Kinase

Indexed keywords

PYRUVATE KINASE;

ARTICLE; CAPE VERDE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; FEMALE; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC TRAIT; GLUCOSE 6 PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE DEFICIENCY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALE; MORBIDITY; MUTATION RATE; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH PROBLEM; SHORT TANDEM REPEAT; SICKLE CELL TRAIT;

ADULT; ANEMIA, HEMOLYTIC, CONGENITAL NONSPHEROCYTIC; CAPE VERDE; ERYTHROCYTES; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDIES; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GLUCOSEPHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE; HEMOGLOBIN, SICKLE; HUMANS; ISOENZYMES; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; LIVER; MALARIA; MALE; PLASMODIUM; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PORTUGAL; PYRUVATE KINASE;

EID: 73049117449     PISSN: 10799796     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bcmd.2009.09.008     Document Type: Article

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