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. 2014 Apr 25;210(8):1188–1197. doi: 10.1093/infdis/jiu236

Figure 1.

Figure 1.

Location of repeat regions within pfs230 and pfg377 amplicons and allelic diversity of 6 gametocyte markers. A, Markers pfs230 and pfg377 both span 2 distinct repeat regions. Individual repeat units are in shades of grey. Protein sequences of Plasmodium falciparum strain 3D7 were derived from PlasmoDB: PF3D7_0209000 (pfs230) and PF3D7_1250100 (pfg377). B, Allelic frequencies of 6 molecular markers for genotyping gametocytes determined in 111 cross-sectional samples from Papua New Guinea. Highest diversity was found for pfs230 (18 alleles) and pfg377 (15 alleles). The rounded average allele size is indicated for each allele in addition to the frequencies of the most frequent alleles of each marker in the study population. Abbreviations: NF, nested PCR forward primer; NR, nested PCR reverse primer; PCR, polymerase chain reaction; PF, primary PCR forward primer; PR, primary PCR reverse primer.