Population Genetics of GYPB and Association Study between GYPB*S/s Polymorphism and Susceptibility to P. falciparum Infection in the Brazilian Amazon

BACKGROUND: Merozoites of Plasmodium falciparum invade through several pathways using different RBC receptors. Field isolates appear to use a greater variability of these receptors than laboratory isolates. Brazilian field isolates were shown to mostly utilize glycophorin A-independent invasion path...

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Autores principales: Tarazona-Santos, Eduardo, Castilho, Lilian, Amaral, Daphne R. T., Costa, Daiane C., Furlani, Natália G., Zuccherato, Luciana W., Machado, Moara, Reid, Marion E., Zalis, Mariano G., Rossit, Andréa R., Santos, Sidney E. B., Machado, Ricardo L., Lustigman, Sara
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2011
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3026040/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21283638
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0016123

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