Endothelial protein C receptor gene variants not associated with severe malaria in Ghanaian children

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 12, 2014, Pages

  Schuldt, Kathrin ^a   Ehmen, Christa ^a   Evans, Jennifer ^a   May, Juergen ^a   Ansong, Daniel ^b   Sievertsen, Juergen ^a   Muntau, Birgit ^a   Ruge, Gerd ^a   Agbenyega, Tsiri ^b   Horstmann, Rolf D ^a  

^a BERNHARD NOCHT INSTITUTE FOR TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Germany)

^b KWAME NKRUMAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Ghana)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENDOTHELIAL PROTEIN C RECEPTOR; CELL SURFACE RECEPTOR; LEUKOCYTE ANTIGEN; PROCR PROTEIN, HUMAN;

ADOLESCENT; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN MALARIA; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENDEMIC DISEASE; ENDOTHELIUM; ERYTHROCYTE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GHANA; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MICROVASCULATURE; PHENOTYPE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RECEPTOR GENE; THROMBOSIS; CASE CONTROL STUDY; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; GENOTYPING TECHNIQUE; INFANT; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

ADOLESCENT; ANTIGENS, CD; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOTYPING TECHNIQUES; GHANA; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; INFANT; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; PHENOTYPE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE;

EID: 84919897841     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0115770     Document Type: Article

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