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Molecular Biology and Evolution, doi:10.1093/molbev/msj116
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Accepted February 24, 2006

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Microsatellite Variation, Repeat Array Length and Population History of Plasmodium vivax

M. Imwong 1, D. Sudimack 2, S. Pukrittayakamee 1, L. Osorio 3, J.M. Carlton 4, N.P.J. Day 5, N.J. White 5, and T.J.C. Anderson 2 *

1 Department of Clinical Tropical Medicine, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand
2 Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research (SFBR), San Antonio, Tx, USA
3 International Centre for Medical Research and Training (CIDEIM), Cali, Colombia
4 The Institute for Genomic Research, Rockville, Md, USA
5 Department of Clinical Tropical Medicine, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand; Centre for Tropical Medicine and Vaccinology, Churchill Hospital, Oxford, UK

* To whom correspondence should be addressed.
T.J.C. Anderson, E-mail: tanderso{at}darwin.sfbr.org


  Abstract

A recent paper (Leclerc et al. 2004) described limited variation in di-nucleotide microsatellites from P. vivax, suggesting very recent bottlenecks or genome wide selective events. We describe patterns of variation in 11 di-nucleotide microsatellites in Plasmodium vivax populations from Colombia, India and Thailand. We find abundant variation with heterozygosity of 0.64, 0.76 and 0.77 respectively in the 3 countries. The discrepancy between these two studies results is simply explained by the differences in the size of repeat arrays. The microsatellites studied by Leclerc et al have very few repeats (median 5.5, range 4-13) so would not be expected to be variable. P. vivax microsatellites show comparable levels of variation to those in P. falciparum when repeat array length is taken into account and provide no support for recent bottlenecks or widespread selective purging of variation from the genome of P. vivax.

Keywords: Microsatellite; array length; heterozygosity; selection; bottleneck.
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