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Ooh, what d'it sound like?
February 9, 2026 at 10:09 PM
Ooh, what d'it sound like?
Thanks to the awesome @malariagen.bsky.social www.malariagen.net/data_package..., @eppicenter.bsky.social, Jeff Bailey lab, doi.org/10.1038/s414... and many others for data, ideas, and discussion!
Malaria surveillance reveals parasite relatedness, signatures of selection, and correlates of transmission across Senegal - Nature Communications
Senegal has initiated a national sentinel surveillance program for malaria parasite genetics. Here, the authors report data from the first year of the program and use it to investigate local malaria i...
doi.org
November 20, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Thanks to the awesome @malariagen.bsky.social www.malariagen.net/data_package..., @eppicenter.bsky.social, Jeff Bailey lab, doi.org/10.1038/s414... and many others for data, ideas, and discussion!
This is the 3rd of a triumvirate of papers about these 'Pfsa' variants - including Helena Hopson, Sandrine Nsango, @ellenleffler.bsky.social work on asymptomatic cases doi.org/10.1101/2025... and Andre Python's paper doi.org/10.1101/2025... on geographical variation + evolution currently on biorxiv.
November 20, 2025 at 3:16 PM
This is the 3rd of a triumvirate of papers about these 'Pfsa' variants - including Helena Hopson, Sandrine Nsango, @ellenleffler.bsky.social work on asymptomatic cases doi.org/10.1101/2025... and Andre Python's paper doi.org/10.1101/2025... on geographical variation + evolution currently on biorxiv.
Hello! V.pleased our new ms about sickle-associated genetic variants in the P.falciparum genome is now out: doi.org/10.1101/2025.... Sterling work by Annie Forster using data from @malariagen.bsky.social and newly generated sequences to meta-analyse across pops - with new findings in CLAG and FIKK.
Associations between sickle haemoglobin and the Plasmodium falciparum CLAG and FIKK gene families revealed by meta-analysis of 6,289 African samples
The recent discovery that mutations in the Plasmodium falciparum genome are overrepresented in infections of sickle haemoglobin (HbS)-carriers has highlighted new questions about the underlying biolog...
doi.org
November 20, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Hello! V.pleased our new ms about sickle-associated genetic variants in the P.falciparum genome is now out: doi.org/10.1101/2025.... Sterling work by Annie Forster using data from @malariagen.bsky.social and newly generated sequences to meta-analyse across pops - with new findings in CLAG and FIKK.
Thanks @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social!
September 6, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Thanks @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social!