Nature Communications (Dec 2018)

The origins of malaria artemisinin resistance defined by a genetic and transcriptomic background

  • Lei Zhu,
  • Jaishree Tripathi,
  • Frances Maureen Rocamora,
  • Olivo Miotto,
  • Rob van der Pluijm,
  • Till S. Voss,
  • Sachel Mok,
  • Dominic P. Kwiatkowski,
  • François Nosten,
  • Nicholas P. J. Day,
  • Nicholas J. White,
  • Arjen M. Dondorp,
  • Zbynek Bozdech,
  • Tracking Resistance to Artemisinin Collaboration I

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-07588-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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Mechanisms underlying increasing artemisinin resistance of Plasmodium in Southeast Asia remain unclear. Here, Zhu et al. integrate TWAS, GWAS and eQTL analyses for 773 P. falciparum isolates and identify genetic and transcriptomic backgrounds to artemisinin resistance.