Malaria severity and human nitric oxide synthase type 2 (NOS2) promoter haplotypes.

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Published in Hum Genet on October 27, 2009

Authors

Marc C Levesque1, Maurine R Hobbs, Charles W O'Loughlin, Jennifer A Chancellor, Youwei Chen, Ariana N Tkachuk, Jennifer Booth, Kistie B Patch, Sallie Allgood, Ann R Pole, Carolyn A Fernandez, Esther D Mwaikambo, Theonest K Mutabingwa, Michal Fried, Bess Sorensen, Patrick E Duffy, Donald L Granger, Nicholas M Anstey, J Brice Weinberg

Author Affiliations

1: Durham VA Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA. MCL40@pitt.edu

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