NSR-seq transcriptional profiling enables identification of a gene signature of Plasmodium falciparum parasites infecting children

Journal of Clinical Investigation

Volumn 121, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1119-1129

  Vignali, Marissa ^a   Armour, Christopher D ^b,e   Chen, Jingyang ^a,c   Morrison, Robert ^a   Castle, John C ^b,f   Biery, Matthew C ^b,e   Bouzek, Heather ^b,g   Moon, Wonjong ^a   Babak, Tomas ^b,h   Fried, Michal ^a,d   Raymond, Christopher K ^b,e   Duffy, Patrick E ^a,c,d  

^a SEATTLE BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b ROSETTA INPHARMATICS   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^e NuGEN Technologies Inc   (United States)

^f Institute for Translational Oncology and Immunology   (Germany)

^g UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^h MERCK RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLOBIN; MALARIA VACCINE; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PROTEIN VAR2CSA; RIBOSOME RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD DISEASE; BLOODBORNE BACTERIUM; FEMALE; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PARASITE ISOLATION; PATHOGENESIS; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEOMICS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA SEQUENCE; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; CHILD; DNA PRIMERS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; MALARIA; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, PARASITIC; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RISK; RNA; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 79952221674     PISSN: 00219738     EISSN: 15588238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1172/JCI43457     Document Type: Article

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