Microsatellites have been increasingly used to investigate the population structure of malaria parasites, to map genetic loci contributing to phenotypes such as drug resistance and virulence in laboratory crosses and genome-wide association studies and to distinguish between treatment failures and new infections in clinical trials. Here, we provide optimized protocols for genotyping highly polymorphic microsatellites sampled from across the genomes of the human malaria parasites Plasmodium falciparum and P. vivax that have been extensively used in research laboratories worldwide. © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2013.
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Orjuela-Sánchez, P., Brandi, M. C., & Ferreira, M. U. (2013). Microsatellite analysis of malaria parasites. Methods in Molecular Biology, 1006, 247–258. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-62703-389-3_17
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