Malaria and World Health: The Role of Genomics

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Malaria and World Health: The Role of Genomics

• CDC information: The big push to defeat malaria
• CDC information: Human genetic factors and malaria
• CDC information: Protective effects of sickle cell trait against malaria-associated mortality and morbidity
• Malaria diagnostics and surveillance in the post-genomic era: A review
  Lucchi N, Oberstaller L, Kissinger J, et al. Public Health Genomics, 2013;16:37-43
• Since 2001, 206 genes have been reported in relation to risk of malaria and its outcomes, including 7 genomewide association studies. Find out more using the HuGENavigator