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    Common variants in the HLA-DRB1HLA-DQA1 HLA class II region are associated with susceptibility to visceral leishmaniasis

    Jenefer Blackwell, Peter Donnelly and colleagues report a genome-wide association study for visceral leishmaniasis using studies from India and Brazil, with replication in an additional Indian study. They iden...

    Michaela Fakiola, Amy Strange, Heather J Cordell, E Nancy Miller in Nature Genetics (2013)

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    CXCR1 and SLC11A1polymorphisms affect susceptibility to cutaneous leishmaniasis in Brazil: a case-control and family-based study

    L. braziliensis causes cutaneous (CL) and mucosal (ML) leishmaniasis. Wound healing neutrophil (PMN) and macrophage responses made following the bite of the vector sand fly contribute to disease progression in m...

    Léa Castellucci, Sarra E Jamieson, E Nancy Miller, Eliane Menezes in BMC Medical Genetics (2010)

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    Are there two classes of VSG gene in Trypanosoma brucei?

    Antigenic variation in the African trypanosomes involves the sequential expression of genes coding for different variant surface glycoproteins (VSGs) (reviewed in refs 1–3). When expression of some VSG genes i...

    John R. Young, E. Nancy Miller, Richard O. Williams, Mervyn J. Turner in Nature (1983)