Genome-wide diversity and differentiation in New World populations of the human malaria parasite Plasmodium vivax.

• Main Authors: Thais C de Oliveira (Author), Priscila T Rodrigues (Author), Maria José Menezes (Author), Raquel M Gonçalves-Lopes (Author), Melissa S Bastos (Author), Nathália F Lima (Author), Susana Barbosa (Author), Alexandra L Gerber (Author), Guilherme Loss de Morais (Author), Luisa Berná (Author), Jody Phelan (Author), Carlos Robello (Author), Ana Tereza R de Vasconcelos (Author), João Marcelo P Alves (Author), Marcelo U Ferreira (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2017-07-01T00:00:00Z.
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The Americas were the last continent colonized by humans carrying malaria parasites. Plasmodium falciparum from the New World shows very little genetic diversity and greater linkage disequilibrium, compared with its African counterparts, and is clearly subdivided into local, highly divergent populat...