1. New insights into malaria susceptibility from the genomes of 17,000 individuals from Africa, Asia, and Oceania
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Kate Rowlands, Timothy M. E. Davis, Salimata Konate, Umberto D'Alessandro, Angeliki Kerasidou, Sodiomon B. Sirima, David J. Conway, Fatoumatta Sisay-Joof, S Ademola, Mahamadou A. Thera, Momodou W. Jallow, Edith C. Bougouma, Alexander J. Mentzer, Alphaxard Manjurano, Chris Drakeley, Carolyne M. Ndila, Giorgio Sirugo, Eleanor Drury, Nguyen Hoan Phu, Moses Laman, Anthony Enimil, Pascal Michon, N T Ngoc Quyen, Terrie E. Taylor, Jennifer Evans, Ogobara K. Doumbo, Anita Ghansah, Malcolm E. Molyneux, Alexander T. Dilthey, Sibiry Sissoko, Olukemi K. Amodu, Kalifa Bojang, Yik Ying Teo, Ousmane Touré, Eleanor M. Riley, Dominic P. Kwiatkowski, Angela Allen, Laurens Manning, D Ansong, Peter Siba, Stephen Allen, Thomas N. Williams, Christina Hubbart, Tobias O. Apinjoh, Cao Quang Thai, Hugh Reyburn, Q S Le, Melanie Bahlo, Geraldine M. Clarke, Spencer Cca., Ivo Mueller, Anna E. Jeffreys, Gil McVean, Valentina D. Mangano, Jj J. Farrar, Victoria Cornelius, Busby Gbj., Kevin Marsh, Jim Stalker, David Modiano, Tran Tinh Hien, Michael T. Wilson, Tsiri Agbenyega, A Hodgson, Sarah J. Dunstan, Harin Karunajeewa, L. Amenga-Etego, Ellen M. Leffler, Katja Kivinen, Eric A. Achidi, Kirk A. Rockett, Kwadwo A. Koram, and J Shelton
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Genetics ,Host resistance ,biology ,Plasmodium falciparum ,Disease ,Heritability ,Hla association ,biology.organism_classification ,medicine.disease ,Genome ,Cerebral Malaria ,parasitic diseases ,medicine ,Malaria - Abstract
We conducted a genome-wide association study of host resistance to severePlasmodium falciparummalaria in over 17,000 individuals from 11 malaria-endemic countries, undertaking a wide ranging analysis which identifies five replicable associations with genome-wide levels of evidence. Our findings include a newly implicated variant on chromosome 6 associated with risk of cerebral malaria, and the discovery of an erythroid-specific transcription start site underlying the association inATP2B4. Previously reported HLA associations cannot be replicated in this dataset. We estimate substantial heritability of severe malaria (h2~ 23%), of which around 10% is explained by the currently identified associations. Our dataset will provide a major building block for future research on the genetic determinants of disease in these diverse human populations.
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- 2019