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Carlton JM Adams JH Silva JC Bidwell SL Lorenzi H Caler E Crabtree J Angiuoli SV Merino EF Amedeo P Cheng Q Coulson RM Crabb BS Del Portillo HA Essien K Feldblyum TV Fernandez-Becerra C Gilson PR Gueye AH Guo X Kang'a S Kooij TW Korsinczky M Meyer EV Nene V Paulsen I White O Ralph SA Ren Q Sargeant TJ Salzberg SL Stoeckert CJ Sullivan SA Yamamoto MM Hoffman SL Wortman JR Gardner MJ Galinski MR Barnwell JW Fraser-Liggett CM 《Nature》2008,455(7214):757-763
The human malaria parasite Plasmodium vivax is responsible for 25-40% of the approximately 515 million annual cases of malaria worldwide. Although seldom fatal, the parasite elicits severe and incapacitating clinical symptoms and often causes relapses months after a primary infection has cleared. Despite its importance as a major human pathogen, P. vivax is little studied because it cannot be propagated continuously in the laboratory except in non-human primates. We sequenced the genome of P. vivax to shed light on its distinctive biological features, and as a means to drive development of new drugs and vaccines. Here we describe the synteny and isochore structure of P. vivax chromosomes, and show that the parasite resembles other malaria parasites in gene content and metabolic potential, but possesses novel gene families and potential alternative invasion pathways not recognized previously. Completion of the P. vivax genome provides the scientific community with a valuable resource that can be used to advance investigation into this neglected species. 相似文献
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Haiman CA Chen GK Blot WJ Strom SS Berndt SI Kittles RA Rybicki BA Isaacs WB Ingles SA Stanford JL Diver WR Witte JS Hsing AW Nemesure B Rebbeck TR Cooney KA Xu J Kibel AS Hu JJ John EM Gueye SM Watya S Signorello LB Hayes RB Wang Z Yeboah E Tettey Y Cai Q Kolb S Ostrander EA Zeigler-Johnson C Yamamura Y Neslund-Dudas C Haslag-Minoff J Wu W Thomas V Allen GO Murphy A Chang BL Zheng SL Leske MC Wu SY Ray AM Hennis AJ Thun MJ Carpten J Casey G Carter EN Duarte ER Xia LY Sheng X Wan P Pooler LC 《Nature genetics》2011,43(6):570-573
In search of common risk alleles for prostate cancer that could contribute to high rates of the disease in men of African ancestry, we conducted a genome-wide association study, with 1,047,986 SNP markers examined in 3,425 African-Americans with prostate cancer (cases) and 3,290 African-American male controls. We followed up the most significant 17 new associations from stage 1 in 1,844 cases and 3,269 controls of African ancestry. We identified a new risk variant on chromosome 17q21 (rs7210100, odds ratio per allele = 1.51, P = 3.4 × 10(-13)). The frequency of the risk allele is ~5% in men of African descent, whereas it is rare in other populations (<1%). Further studies are needed to investigate the biological contribution of this allele to prostate cancer risk. These findings emphasize the importance of conducting genome-wide association studies in diverse populations. 相似文献
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