Estimating Relatedness Between Malaria Parasites
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Inferred relatedness and heritability in malaria parasites
Malaria parasites vary in phenotypic traits of biomedical or biological interest such as growth rate, virulence, sex ratio and drug resistance, and there is considerable interest in identifying the genes that underlie this variation. An important first step is to determine trait heritability (H(2)). We evaluate two approaches to measuring H(2) in natural parasite populations using relatedness i...
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عنوان ژورنال: Genetics
سال: 2019
ISSN: 1943-2631
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.119.302120