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Table 1 Total number of gene sequences for each VSA family for each parasite strain

From: Design of a variant surface antigen-supplemented microarray chip for whole transcriptome analysis of multiple Plasmodium falciparum cytoadherent strains, and identification of strain-transcendent rif and stevor genes

  

3D7

HB3

Dd2

IT

var

genes

62

38

39

49

 

Pseudogenesa

1

6

4

3

 

Truncated genesb

0

6

7

4

 

Total

63

50

50

56

rif

genes

153

100

99

102

 

Pseudogenes

28

21

21

15

 

Truncated genes

3

4

13

8

 

Total

184

125

132

125

stevor

stevor genes

30

17

24

25

 

Pseudogenes

7

9

7

8

 

Truncated genes

0

0

0

0

 

Total

37

26

31

33

pfmc-2tm

genes

10

6

2

5

 

Pseudogenes

3

1

0

2

 

Truncated genes

0

1

1

1

 

Total

13

8

3

8

  1. aPseudogene: one or more stop codons or frameshifts within the sequence.
  2. bTruncated gene: part of the gene sequence is missing, most likely due to incomplete sequencing.
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Malaria Journal

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