Microsatellite Variation, Repeat Array Length, and Population History of Plasmodium vivax

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A recent paper (Leclerc et al. 2004) described limited variation in dinucleotide microsatellites from Plasmodium vivax, suggesting very recent bottlenecks or genome-wide selective events. We describe patterns of variation in 11 dinucleotide microsatellites in P. vivax populations from Colombia, India, and Thailand. We find abundant variation with heterozygosity of 0.64, 0.76, and 0.77, respectively, in the three...

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