@article{4934b832e45f4525be564ab9dc9c6a49,
title = "Plasmodium falciparum genome-wide scans for positive selection, recombination hot spots and resistance to antimalarial drugs",
abstract = "Antimalarial drugs impose strong selective pressure on Plasmodium falciparum parasites and leave signatures of selection in the parasite genome; screening for genes under selection may suggest potential drug or immune targets. Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) of parasite traits have been hampered by the lack of high-throughput genotyping methods, inadequate knowledge of parasite population history and time-consuming adaptations of parasites to in vitro culture. Here we report the first Plasmodium GWAS, which included 189 culture-adapted P. falciparum parasites genotyped using a custom-built Affymetrix molecular inversion probe 3K malaria panel array with a coverage of 1 SNP per 7 kb. Population structure, variation in recombination rate and loci under recent positive selection were detected. Parasite half-maximum inhibitory concentrations for seven antimalarial drugs were obtained and used in GWAS to identify genes associated with drug responses. This study provides valuable tools and insight into the P. falciparum genome.",
author = "Jianbing Mu and Myers, \{Rachel A.\} and Hongying Jiang and Shengfa Liu and Stacy Ricklefs and Michael Waisberg and Kesinee Chotivanich and Polrat Wilairatana and Srivicha Krudsood and White, \{Nicholas J.\} and Rachanee Udomsangpetch and Liwang Cui and May Ho and Fengzhen Ou and Haibo Li and Jianping Song and Guoqiao Li and Xinhua Wang and Suon Seila and Sreng Sokunthea and Duong Socheat and Sturdevant, \{Daniel E.\} and Porcella, \{Stephen F.\} and Fairhurst, \{Rick M.\} and Wellems, \{Thomas E.\} and Philip Awadalla and Su, \{Xin Zhuan\}",
note = "Funding Information: This work was supported by the Division of Intramural Research, NIAID, NIH (USA), funds from the Canadian Institute of Health Research \#11284 and \#200183, the US National Academies Keck Genome Initiative, and the Human Frontiers in Science Program \#RGP54/2006 for P.A. K.C. and N.J.W. are supported by the Wellcome Trust. S.L. was supported by the 973 National Basic Research Program of China, \#2007CB513103. We also thank J. Sattabongkot for help in parasite shipping, J. Dunn and L. Zhang for assistance in parasite culture and NIAID intramural editor B.R. Marshall for assistance.",
year = "2010",
month = mar,
doi = "10.1038/ng.528",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "42",
pages = "268--271",
journal = "Nature Genetics",
issn = "1061-4036",
publisher = "Nature Research",
number = "3",
}