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Article: Genetic variation across entire malaria parasite genome mapped
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- The Hindustan Times
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- December 11, 2006
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Washington, Dec 11 -- An international team of boffins have moved a step forward for finding a cure against malaria by creating a genome-scale map of genetic variation for its parasite.
The team, led by scientists at the Harvard School of Public Health and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, together with researchers in Senegal, completed a genome-wide map that charts the genetic variability of the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum, including an initial catalogue of nearly 47,000 specific genetic differences among parasites sampled worldwide.
Initial use of the map has already unlocked new genes ...