1. A global network for investigating the genomic epidemiology of malaria
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Julie Makani, Kathryn Fitzpatrick, Ogobara K. Duombo, Jennifer Evans, Claire Potter, Giorgio Sirugo, Enmoore Lin, Christina Hubbart, Abier Elzein, Martha M. Lemnge, Anthony Enimil, Alioune Ly, Olukemi K. Amodu, Valentina D. Mangano, Angie Green, Alphaxard Manjurano, Dominic P. Kwiatkowski, Ivo Mueller, David Barnwell, Anna E. Jeffreys, Marryat Stevens, Thomas N. Williams, David Modiano, Sarah J. Dunstan, Taane G. Clark, Susana Campino, Tobias O. Apinjoh, Tran Tinh Hien, Sodiomon B. Sirima, David J. Conway, Terrie Taylor, Anavaj Sakuntabhai, L. Amenga-Etego, Catherine L. Moyes, Nguyen Ngoc Quyen, Laurens Manning, Mahamadou Diakite, Katharine Cook, Patrick H. Corran, Jeremy Farrar, Nadira D. Karunaweera, Kevin Marsh, Ogobara K. Doumbo, Catherine Hughes, Eric A. Achidi, Kirk A. Rockett, Chris Drakeley, Tsiri Agbenyega, Panos Deloukas, Mahamadou A. Thera, Kalifa Bojang, Julie Evans, Aaron Vanderwal, Christopher V. Plowe, Pascal Michon, Adama Tall, Aceme Nyika, Michael Gottlieb, Renee Watson, Gilbert Kokwaro, Jiannis Ragoussis, Eleanor M. Riley, Stephen Allen, Katja Kivinen, Muntaser E. Ibrahim, Bronwyn MacInnis, Vysaul Nyirongo, Elilan Somaskantharajah, Ayman S. Hussein, Alan Doyle, Carolyne M. Ndila, Michael T. Wilson, Muminatou Jallow, Jane Rogers, Abdoulaye Djimde, Deepika Fernando, Jantina DeVries, Patrick E. Duffy, Odile Puijalon, Yik Ying Teo, Kate Rowlands, Michael W. Parker, Deus S. Ishengoma, Marilyn McCreight, Edith C. Bougouma, Tom Oluoch, Rebecca Wrigley, Kerrin S. Small, Hugh Reyburn, Gareth Maslen, Malcolm E. Molyneux, Sarah Auburn, Eliza Hilton, Lee Hart, Pratap Singhasivanon, Alieu Mendy, Miguel A. Sanjoaquin, Magnus Manske, Anita Ghansah, Rajika L. Dewasurendra, Amagana Dolo, Dan Carucci, Theonest K. Mutabingwa, Prapat Suriyaphol, Marita Troye-Blomberg, Paul Risley, Susan Bull, Rolf D. Horstmann, Daniel Alcock, Ousman Toure, Kojo Koram, John C. Reeder, and Norbert Peshu
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Burden of disease ,Economic growth ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Plasmodium ,Population ,Developing country ,Global Health ,Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide ,Article ,Political science ,Epidemiology ,Global network ,Anopheles ,Global health ,medicine ,Animals ,Humans ,education ,education.field_of_study ,Multidisciplinary ,biology ,business.industry ,Genome, Human ,biology.organism_classification ,medicine.disease ,Immunity, Innate ,Biotechnology ,Malaria ,Epidemiologic Research Design ,business ,Genome-Wide Association Study - Abstract
Large-scale studies of genomic variation could assist efforts to eliminate malaria. But there are scientific, ethical and practical challenges to carrying out such studies in developing countries, where the burden of disease is greatest. The Malaria Genomic Epidemiology Network (MalariaGEN) is now working to overcome these obstacles, using a consortial approach that brings together researchers from 21 countries. © 2008 Macmillan Publishers Limited. All rights reserved.
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- 2008