Publication Date:
2006-04-29
Description:
We surveyed an Anopheles gambiae population in a West African malaria transmission zone for naturally occurring genetic loci that control mosquito infection with the human malaria parasite, Plasmodium falciparum. The strongest Plasmodium resistance loci cluster in a small region of chromosome 2L and each locus explains at least 89% of parasite-free mosquitoes in independent pedigrees. Together, the clustered loci form a genomic Plasmodium-resistance island that explains most of the genetic variation for malaria parasite infection of mosquitoes in nature. Among the candidate genes in this chromosome region, RNA interference knockdown assays confirm a role in Plasmodium resistance for Anopheles Plasmodium-responsive leucine-rich repeat 1 (APL1), encoding a leucine-rich repeat protein that is similar to molecules involved in natural pathogen resistance mechanisms in plants and mammals.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Riehle, Michelle M -- Markianos, Kyriacos -- Niare, Oumou -- Xu, Jiannong -- Li, Jun -- Toure, Abdoulaye M -- Podiougou, Belco -- Oduol, Frederick -- Diawara, Sory -- Diallo, Mouctar -- Coulibaly, Boubacar -- Ouatara, Ahmed -- Kruglyak, Leonid -- Traore, Sekou F -- Vernick, Kenneth D -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2006 Apr 28;312(5773):577-9.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Center for Microbial and Plant Genomics and Department of Microbiology, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN 55108, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16645095" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Alleles
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Animals
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Anopheles gambiae/*genetics/immunology/*parasitology
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Chromosome Mapping
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Female
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*Genes, Insect
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Genetic Linkage
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Genetic Variation
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Genome, Insect
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Humans
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Immunity, Innate/genetics
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Insect Proteins/*genetics/physiology
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Insect Vectors/genetics/*parasitology
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Malaria, Falciparum/parasitology
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Male
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Mali
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Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis
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Pedigree
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Phenotype
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Plasmodium berghei/immunology/pathogenicity
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Plasmodium falciparum/immunology/*pathogenicity
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RNA Interference
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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