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A highly conserved segmental duplication in the subtelomeres of Plasmodium falciparum chromosomes varies in copy number

Bobo W Mok1,2, Ulf Ribacke1,2, Ellen Sherwood3 and Mats Wahlgren1,2*

Author Affiliations

1 Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology (MTC), Karolinska Institutet, SE-171 77 Stockholm, Sweden

2 Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control (SMI), SE-171 82 Stockholm, Sweden

3 Department of Cell and Molecular Biology (CMB), Karolinska Institutet, SE-171 77 Stockholm, Sweden

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Malaria Journal 2008, 7:46 doi:10.1186/1475-2875-7-46

Published: 7 March 2008

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Additional file 1:

Groupings of the subtelomeric genes in 3D7 genome.

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Additional file 2:

Topology of proteins encoded by the genes in the SDs. Red bars show transmembrane regions predicted by TMHMM; PEXEL motifs are indicated by green bars.

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Additional file 3:

SNPs in n-, o-, pfmc-2tm and q-gene found in different P.f. strains.

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Additional file 4:

Copy number estimation of SD genes using BLASTN.

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