Classification and regression tree and spatial analyses reveal geographic heterogeneity in genome wide linkage study of Indian visceral Leishmaniasis

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 12, 2010, Pages

  Fakiola, Michaela ^a   Mishra, Anshuman ^a   Rai, Madhukar ^b   Singh, Shri Prakash ^b   O'Leary, Rebecca A ^b   Ball, Stephen ^c   Francis, Richard W ^a,c   Firth, Martin J ^c   Radford, Ben T ^d   Miller, E Nancy ^a   Sundar, Shyam ^b   Blackwell, Jenefer M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b BANARAS HINDU UNIVERSITY   (India)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHROMOSOME 10; CHROMOSOME 11; CHROMOSOME 2; CHROMOSOME 20; CHROMOSOME 5; CHROMOSOME 6; CHROMOSOME 6P; CHROMOSOME 7; CHROMOSOME 8; CHROMOSOME 8P; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; FAMILY STUDY; FEMALE; GENE MAPPING; GENE REPLICATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; INDIA; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROSATELLITE MARKER; MOSLEM; NUCLEAR FAMILY; PEDIGREE; POPULATION RESEARCH; VISCERAL LEISHMANIASIS; X CHROMOSOME; CHROMOSOME MAP; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; MIDDLE AGED; PRESCHOOL CHILD; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

MICROSATELLITE DNA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; INDIA; INFANT; LEISHMANIASIS, VISCERAL; LOD SCORE; MALE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MIDDLE AGED; PEDIGREE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 79251523859     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0015807     Document Type: Article

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