Genetics underpinning antimalarial drug resistance revealed
Monday, January 19, 2015 - 11:00
in Biology & Nature
The largest genome-wide association study to date of the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum unveils a complex genetic architecture that enables the parasite to develop resistance to our most effective antimalarial drug, artemisinin. The results, published in Nature Genetics, could help to improve early detection of emerging artemisinin resistance.