Genetic and functional evidence implicating DLL1 as the gene that influences susceptibility to visceral leishmaniasis at chromosome 6q27

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 204, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 467-477

  Fakiola, Michaela ^a   Miller, E Nancy ^a   Fadl, Manal ^b   Mohamed, Hiba S ^b   Jamieson, Sarra E ^c   Francis, Richard W ^a,c   Cordell, Heather J ^a,d   Peacock, Christopher S ^e   Raju, Madhuri ^a   Khalil, Eltahir A ^b   Elhassan, Ahmed ^b   Musa, Ahmed M ^b   Silveira, Fernando ^f   Shaw, Jeffrey J ^g   Sundar, Shyam ^h   Jeronimo, Selma M B ⁱ   Ibrahim, Muntaser E ^b   Blackwell, Jenefer M ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KHARTOUM   (Sudan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^d NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^f INSTITUTO EVANDRO CHAGAS   (Brazil)

^g UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^h BANARAS HINDU UNIVERSITY   (India)

ⁱ FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO NORTE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; BRAZIL; C6ORF70 GENE; CHROMOSOME 6Q; CHROMOSOME 6Q27; CONTROLLED STUDY; DLL1 GENE; FAM120B GENE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; INDIA; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PEDIGREE ANALYSIS; PHF10 GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PSMB1 GENE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SPLEEN BIOPSY; SUDAN; TBP GENE; VISCERAL LEISHMANIASIS;

CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 6; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; LEISHMANIASIS, VISCERAL; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE;

EID: 79960109781     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/infdis/jir284     Document Type: Article

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