Article
Single-nucleotide polymorphism and copy number variation of the multidrug resistance-1 locus of Plasmodium vivax: local and global patterns.
The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene - 1 Nov 2012
Vargas-Rodríguez Rosa del Carmen Miluska, da Silva Bastos Melissa, Menezes Maria José, Orjuela-Sánchez Pamela, Ferreira Marcelo U
Abstract excerpt
Emerging resistance to chloroquine (CQ) poses a major challenge for Plasmodium vivax malaria control, and nucleotide substitutions and copy number variation in the P. vivax multidrug resistance 1 (pvmdr-1) locus, which encodes a digestive vacuole membrane transporter, may modulate this phenotype. We describe patterns of genetic variation in pvmdr-1 alleles from Acre and Amazonas in northwestern Brazil, and...
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- Animals
- Base Sequence
- DNA Copy Number Variations
- DNA Primers
- Genetic Variation
- Multidrug Resistance-Associated Proteins
