The malaria parasite Plasmodium vivax exhibits greater genetic diversity than Plasmodium falciparum

Nature Genetics

Volumn 44, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1046-1050

  Neafsey, Daniel E ^a   Galinsky, Kevin ^a   Jiang, Rays H Y ^a   Young, Lauren ^a   Sykes, Sean M ^a   Saif, Sakina ^a   Gujja, Sharvari ^a   Goldberg, Jonathan M ^a   Young, Sarah ^a   Zeng, Qiandong ^a   Chapman, Sinéad B ^a   Dash, Aditya P ^b,f   Anvikar, Anupkumar R ^b   Sutton, Patrick L ^c   Birren, Bruce W ^a   Escalante, Ananias A ^d   Barnwell, John W ^e   Carlton, Jane M ^c  

^a BROAD INSTITUTE OF MIT AND HARVARD   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MALARIA RESEARCH   (India)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^f World Health House   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MICROSATELLITE MARKER; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

AFRICA; AMERICAS; ANIMALS; ASIA; GENETIC VARIATION; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALARIA, VIVAX; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM VIVAX;

EID: 84865681782     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: 15461718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng.2373     Document Type: Article

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