Open AccessGenetic and Functional Evidence Implicating DLL1 as the Gene That Influences Susceptibility to Visceral Leishmaniasis at Chromosome 6q27
Author(s) -
Michaela Fakiola,
E. Nancy Miller,
Manal A. Fadl,
Hiba S. Mohamed,
Sarra E. Jamieson,
Richard W. Francis,
Heather J. Cordell,
Christopher S. Peacock,
Madhuri Raju,
Eltahir Awad Gasim Khalil,
A.M. El-Hassan,
Ahmed Musa,
Fernando Tobias Sílveira,
Jeffrey Jon Shaw,
Shyam Sundar,
Selma M. B. Jerônimo,
Muntaser E. Ibrahim,
Jenefer M. Blackwell
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
the journal of infectious diseases
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.69
H-Index - 252
eISSN - 1537-6613
pISSN - 0022-1899
DOI - 10.1093/infdis/jir284
Subject(s) - genetics , biology , gene , visceral leishmaniasis , chromosome , leishmaniasis
Visceral leishmaniasis (VL) is caused by Leishmania donovani and Leishmania infantum chagasi. Genome-wide linkage studies from Sudan and Brazil identified a putative susceptibility locus on chromosome 6q27.
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