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  05 April 2011 | Open Access

  The global distribution of the Duffy blood group

  The global prevalence of the Duffy blood group variants is important due to the resistance that the Duffy-negative phenotype generally confers uponPlasmodium vivax infection. Hay et al.generate global frequency maps of the common Duffy alleles to show transmission patterns of the malaria parasite.

  • Rosalind E. Howes
  • , Anand P. Patil
  •  & Simon I. Hay

• Article | 08 March 2011

  Larger mitochondrial DNA than Y-chromosome differences between matrilocal and patrilocal groups from Sumatra

  Matrilocal and patrilocal populations are predicted to have greater genetic diversity in mitochondrial DNA and the Y-chromosome, respectively. Here, no difference in the diversity of the Y-chromosome was found in two such groups, suggesting that local diversity was caused by male gene flow in expanding populations.

  • Ellen Dröfn Gunnarsdóttir
  • , Madhusudan R. Nandineni
  •  & Mark Stoneking

• Article
  30 November 2010 | Open Access

  Deep resequencing reveals excess rare recent variants consistent with explosive population growth

  To fully catalogue rare genetic variation in humans, many samples need to be examined. In this study, Coventryet al. resequenced two genes, KCNJ11 and HHEX, in 13,715 humans, and concluded that most of the sequence variation arose recently and that variation is greater than expected.

  • Alex Coventry
  • , Lara M. Bull-Otterson
  •  & Charles F. Sing