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Manoswini Dash1, Prashant Kumar Mallick2
1Centre for Aging, School of Medicine, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, USA.
Trends in Parasitology
|October 20, 2024
Abstract:
An array of microhaplotypes - small segments of ≤200 nucleotides with heterozygous multiple-SNP exhibiting multiple allelic combinations - were identified in the Plasmodium vivax genome by Siegel et al. Interestingly, the microhaplotype has significant potential to distinguish relapse/reinfection and identify genetic relatedness across vivax-endemic areas. It is essential to validate the universal applicability of microhaplotypes.

