The malaria parasite Plasmodium vivax exhibits greater genetic diversity than Plasmodium falciparum.

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Published in Nat Genet on August 05, 2012

Authors

Daniel E Neafsey1, Kevin Galinsky, Rays H Y Jiang, Lauren Young, Sean M Sykes, Sakina Saif, Sharvari Gujja, Jonathan M Goldberg, Sarah Young, Qiandong Zeng, Sinéad B Chapman, Aditya P Dash, Anupkumar R Anvikar, Patrick L Sutton, Bruce W Birren, Ananias A Escalante, John W Barnwell, Jane M Carlton

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1: Broad Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.

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