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Inferred relatedness and heritability in malaria parasites.
Proceedings. Biological sciences - 22 Aug 2010
Anderson Tim J C, Williams Jeff T, Nair Shalini, Sudimack Daniel, Barends Marion, Jaidee Anchalee, Price Ric N, Nosten François
Abstract excerpt
Malaria parasites vary in phenotypic traits of biomedical or biological interest such as growth rate, virulence, sex ratio and drug resistance, and there is considerable interest in identifying the genes that underlie this variation. An important first step is to determine trait heritability (H(2)). We evaluate two approaches to measuring H(2) in natural parasite populations using relatedness inferred from...
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