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This Article Full Text Full Text (PDF) Alert me when this article is cited Alert me if a correction is posted Citation Map Services Email this article to a friend Similar articles in this journal Similar articles in PubMed Alert me to new issues of the journal Download to citation manager Rights and Permissions Citing Articles Citing Articles via HighWire Citing Articles via CrossRef Citing Articles via Google Scholar Google Scholar Articles by Patel, S. S. Articles by Zimmerman, P. A. Search for Related Content PubMed PubMed Citation Articles by Patel, S. S. Articles by Zimmerman, P. A. Related Collections Red Cells Brief Reports Social Bookmarking                   What's this?  Previous Article  |  Table of Contents  |  Next Article  Blood, 1 December 2001, Vol. 98, No. 12, pp. 3489-3491 BRIEF REPORT The association of the glycophorin C exon 3 deletion with ovalocytosis and malaria susceptibility in the Wosera, Papua New Guinea Sheral S. Patel, Rajeev K. Mehlotra, William Kastens, Charles S. Mgone, James W. Kazura, and Peter A. Zimmerman From the Division of Geographic Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, and University Hospitals of Cleveland, Cleveland, OH; and Papua New Guinea Institute of Medical Research, Goroka, Papua New Guinea. Erythrocyte polymorphisms, including ovalocytosis, have been associated with protection against malaria. This study in the Wosera, a malaria holoendemic region of Papua New Guinea, examined the genetic basis of ovalocytosis and its influence on susceptibility to malaria infection. Whereas previous studies showed significant associations between Southeast Asian ovalocytosis (caused by a 27- base pair deletion in the anion exchanger 1 protein gene) and protection from cerebral malaria, this mutation was observed in only 1 of 1019 individuals in the Wosera. Polymerase chain reaction strategies were developed to genotype individuals for the glycophorin C exon 3 deletion associated with Melanesian Gerbich negativity (GPCex3). This polymorphism was commonly observed in the study population (GPCex3 frequency = 0.465, n = 742). Although GPCex3 was significantly associated with increased ovalocytosis, it was not associated with differences in either Plasmodium falciparum or P vivax infection measured over the 7-month study period. Future case-control studies will determine if GPCex3 reduces susceptibility to malaria morbidity. © 2001 by The American Society of Hematology.   CiteULike    Connotea    Del.icio.us    Digg    Reddit    Technorati    What's this? This article has been cited by other articles: G. Min-Oo, A. Fortin, G. Pitari, M. Tam, M. M. Stevenson, and P. Gros Complex genetic control of susceptibility to malaria: positional cloning of the Char9 locus J. Exp. Med., March 19, 2007; 204(3): 511 - 524. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] L. J. KASEHAGEN, I. MUELLER, D. T. McNAMARA, M. J. BOCKARIE, B. KINIBORO, L. RARE, K. LORRY, W. KASTENS, J. C. REEDER, J. W. KAZURA, et al. Changing patterns of Plasmodium blood-stage infections in the wosera region of papua new Guinea monitored by light microscopy and high throughput PCR diagnosis. Am J Trop Med Hyg, October 1, 2006; 75(4): 588 - 596. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] D. T. McNAMARA, L. J. KASEHAGEN, B. T. GRIMBERG, J. COLE-TOBIAN, W. E. COLLINS, and P. A. ZIMMERMAN Diagnosing infection levels of four human malaria parasite species by a polymerase chain reaction/ligase detection reaction fluorescent microsphere-based assay. Am J Trop Med Hyg, March 1, 2006; 74(3): 413 - 421. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] A. Cortes, A. Benet, B. M. Cooke, J. W. Barnwell, and J. C. Reeder Ability of Plasmodium falciparum to invade Southeast Asian ovalocytes varies between parasite lines Blood, November 1, 2004; 104(9): 2961 - 2966. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] D. C. G. Mayer, J.-B. Mu, O. Kaneko, J. Duan, X.-z. Su, and L. H. Miller Polymorphism in the Plasmodium falciparum erythrocyte-binding ligand JESEBL/EBA-181 alters its receptor specificity PNAS, February 24, 2004; 101(8): 2518 - 2523. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] C.-A. Lobo, M. Rodriguez, M. Reid, and S. Lustigman Glycophorin C is the receptor for the Plasmodium falciparum erythrocyte binding ligand PfEBP-2 (baebl) Blood, June 1, 2003; 101(11): 4628 - 4631. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] D.C. G. Mayer, J.-B. Mu, X. Feng, X.-z. Su, and L. H. Miller Polymorphism in a Plasmodium falciparum Erythrocyte-binding Ligand Changes Its Receptor Specificity J. Exp. Med., December 2, 2002; 196(11): 1523 - 1528. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] A. Fortin, M.M. Stevenson, and P. Gros Susceptibility to malaria as a complex trait: big pressure from a tiny creature Hum. Mol. Genet., October 1, 2002; 11(20): 2469 - 2478. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] D. J. Weatherall, L. H. Miller, D. I. Baruch, K. Marsh, O. K. Doumbo, C. Casals-Pascual, and D. J. Roberts Malaria and the Red Cell Hematology, January 1, 2002; 2002(1): 35 - 57. [Abstract] [Full Text]

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