Common host variation drives malaria parasite fitness in healthy human red cells
Emily R. Ebel, Frans A. Kuypers, Carrie Lin, Dmitri A. Petrov, Elizabeth S. Egan
The paper investigates how common host red blood cell variation affects Plasmodium falciparum parasite growth in healthy humans, finding that non-pathogenic polymorphisms in RBC proteins significantly explain parasite fitness variation.
eLife · Sep 23, 2021Peer-reviewedGenetics