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Nature Genetics 39, 120–125 (1 January 2007) | doi:10.1038/ng1931

Genome variation and evolution of the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum

Daniel C Jeffares , Arnab Pain , Andrew Berry , Anthony V Cox , James Stalker , Catherine E Ingle , Alan Thomas , Michael A Quail , Kyle Siebenthall , Anne-Catrin Uhlemann , Sue Kyes , Sanjeev Krishna , Chris Newbold , Emmanouil T Dermitzakis & Matthew Berriman

Infections with the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum result in more than 1 million deaths each year worldwide. Deciphering the evolutionary history and genetic variation of P.