Selections, frameshift mutations, and copy number variation detected on the surf(4.1) gene in the western Kenyan Plasmodium falciparum population

BACKGROUND: Plasmodium falciparum SURFIN(4.1) is a putative ligand expressed on the merozoite and likely on the infected red blood cell, whose gene was suggested to be under directional selection in the eastern Kenyan population, but under balancing selection in the Thai population. To understand th...

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Published in:Malar J
Main Authors: Gitaka, Jesse N., Takeda, Mika, Kimura, Masatsugu, Idris, Zulkarnain Md, Chan, Chim W., Kongere, James, Yahata, Kazuhide, Muregi, Francis W., Ichinose, Yoshio, Kaneko, Akira, Kaneko, Osamu
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: BioMed Central 2017
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5335827/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28253868
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12936-017-1743-x
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