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. 2010 Jul 13:8:90.
doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-8-90.

Genome-wide association studies in Plasmodium species

Bridget Penman  1 , Caroline Buckee, Sunetra Gupta, Sean Nee
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Genome-wide association studies in Plasmodium species

Bridget Penman et al. BMC Biol. .

Abstract

Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) look for correlations between traits of interest and genetic markers spread throughout the genome. A recent study in BMC Genetics has found that populations of the malaria parasite Plasmodium vivax should be amenable to GWAS searching for a genetic basis of parasite pathogenicity. Geographical substructure in populations may, however, prove a problem in interpreting the results.

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