QUIN, J.E., I. BUJILA, M. CHERIF, G.S. SANOU, Y. QU, MV HOMANN, A. ROLICKA, S.B. SIRIMA, Mary Anne O'CONNELL, A. LENNARTSSON, M. TROYE-BLOMBERG, I. NEBIE and A.K.O. FARRANT. Major transcriptional changes observed in the Fulani, an ethnic group less susceptible to malaria. elife. CAMBRIDGE: ELIFE SCIENCES PUBLICATIONS LTD, vol. 6, SEP, p. nestránkováno, 19 pp. ISSN 2050-084X. doi:10.7554/eLife.29156. 2017.
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Original name Major transcriptional changes observed in the Fulani, an ethnic group less susceptible to malaria
Authors QUIN, J.E. (752 Sweden), I. BUJILA (752 Sweden), M. CHERIF (854 Burkina Faso), G.S. SANOU (752 Sweden), Y. QU (752 Sweden), MV HOMANN (752 Sweden), A. ROLICKA (616 Poland), S.B. SIRIMA (752 Sweden), Mary Anne O'CONNELL (372 Ireland, guarantor, belonging to the institution), A. LENNARTSSON (752 Sweden), M. TROYE-BLOMBERG (752 Sweden), I. NEBIE (752 Sweden) and A.K.O. FARRANT (752 Sweden).
Edition elife, CAMBRIDGE, ELIFE SCIENCES PUBLICATIONS LTD, 2017, 2050-084X.
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Original language English
Type of outcome Article in a journal
Field of Study 10600 1.6 Biological sciences
Country of publisher United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Confidentiality degree is not subject to a state or trade secret
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Impact factor Impact factor: 7.616
RIV identification code RIV/00216224:14740/17:00100308
Organization unit Central European Institute of Technology
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.29156
UT WoS 000412360800001
Keywords in English PLASMODIUM-FALCIPARUM MALARIA; GAMMA-RIIA POLYMORPHISM; ACUTE MYELOID-LEUKEMIA; BURKINA-FASO; WEST-AFRICA; INFLAMMASOME ACTIVATION; EPIGENETIC REGULATION; TRAINED IMMUNITY; INNATE IMMUNITY; BINDING-SITES
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Changed by Changed by: Mgr. Pavla Foltynová, Ph.D., učo 106624. Changed: 12/3/2018 12:34.
Abstract
The Fulani ethnic group has relatively better protection from Plasmodium falciparum malaria, as reflected by fewer symptomatic cases of malaria, lower infection rates, and lower parasite densities compared to sympatric ethnic groups. However, the basis for this lower susceptibility to malaria by the Fulani is unknown. The incidence of classic malaria resistance genes are lower in the Fulani than in other sympatric ethnic populations, and targeted SNP analyses of other candidate genes involved in the immune response to malaria have not been able to account for the observed difference in the Fulani susceptibility to P.falciparum. Therefore, we have performed a pilot study to examine global transcription and DNA methylation patterns in specific immune cell populations in the Fulani to elucidate the mechanisms that confer the lower susceptibility to P.falciparum malaria. When we compared uninfected and infected Fulani individuals, in contrast to uninfected and infected individuals from the sympatric ethnic group Mossi, we observed a key difference: a strong transcriptional response was only detected in the monocyte fraction of the Fulani, where over 1000 genes were significantly differentially expressed upon P.falciparum infection.
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