Article
A call to arms: on refining Plasmodium vivax microsatellite marker panels for comparing global diversity.
Malaria journal - 11 Dec 2013
Sutton Patrick L
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Microsatellite (MS) markers have become an important tool for studying the population diversity, evolutionary history and multiplicity of infection (MOI) of malaria parasite infections. MS are typically selected on the basis of being highly polymorphic. However, it is known that the polymorphic potential (mutability) of each marker can vary as much as two orders of magnitude, which radically changes...
Topics
- DNA, Protozoan
- Genetic Markers
- Genetic Variation
- Humans
- Linear Models
- Malaria, Vivax
- Microsatellite Repeats
- Plasmodium vivax