List of works by Kirk A. Rockett

A Bayesian approach using covariance of single nucleotide polymorphism data to detect differences in linkage disequilibrium patterns between groups of individuals

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A TNF region haplotype offers protection from typhoid fever in Vietnamese patients

scientific article published on 15 May 2007

A coding polymorphism in matrix metalloproteinase 9 reduces risk of scarring sequelae of ocular Chlamydia trachomatis infection.

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A genetic association study in the Gambia using tagging polymorphisms in the major histocompatibility complex class III region implicates a HLA-B associated transcript 2 polymorphism in severe malaria susceptibility

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A genome wide association study of Plasmodium falciparum susceptibility to 22 antimalarial drugs in Kenya

scientific article (publication date: 2014)

A high throughput multi-locus insecticide resistance marker panel for tracking resistance emergence and spread in Anopheles gambiae

scientific article published on 16 September 2019

A novel cytofluorometric assay for the detection and quantification of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency

scientific article published on 5 March 2012

A novel locus of resistance to severe malaria in a region of ancient balancing selection.

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Accuracy of haplotype reconstruction from haplotype-tagging single-nucleotide polymorphisms

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Admixture into and within sub-Saharan Africa

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Allelic heterogeneity of G6PD deficiency in West Africa and severe malaria susceptibility

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An effective method to purify Plasmodium falciparum DNA directly from clinical blood samples for whole genome high-throughput sequencing

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An open dataset of Plasmodium falciparum genome variation in 7,000 worldwide samples

An open dataset of Plasmodium falciparum genome variation in 7,000 worldwide samples

scientific article published on 24 February 2021

Analysis of Plasmodium falciparum diversity in natural infections by deep sequencing

scientific article (publication date: 19 July 2012)

Assessing genuine parents-offspring trios for genetic association studies

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Association of candidate gene polymorphisms and TGF-beta/IL-10 levels with malaria in three regions of Cameroon: a case-control study

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Association of cytokine and Toll-like receptor gene polymorphisms with severe malaria in three regions of Cameroon

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Association of the GNAS locus with severe malaria

scientific article published on 26 October 2008

Association scan of 14,500 nonsynonymous SNPs in four diseases identifies autoimmunity variants

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Author Correction: Investigating the drivers of the spatio-temporal patterns of genetic differences between Plasmodium falciparum malaria infections in Kilifi County, Kenya

scientific article published on 23 December 2020

Candidate malaria susceptibility/protective SNPs in hospital and population-based studies: the effect of sub-structuring

scientific article published in 2010

Candidate polymorphisms and severe malaria in a Malian population

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Characterisation of the opposing effects of G6PD deficiency on cerebral malaria and severe malarial anaemia

scientific article published on 09 January 2017

Characterization of Within-Host Plasmodium falciparum Diversity Using Next-Generation Sequence Data

scientific article (publication date: 29 February 2012)

Classical sickle beta-globin haplotypes exhibit a high degree of long-range haplotype similarity in African and Afro-Caribbean populations

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Common variation in the ABO glycosyltransferase is associated with susceptibility to severe Plasmodium falciparum malaria

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Conjunctival fibrosis and the innate barriers to Chlamydia trachomatis intracellular infection: a genome wide association study

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Correction: Imputation-Based Meta-Analysis of Severe Malaria in Three African Populations.

scientific article published on 27 June 2013

Dissection of class III major histocompatibility complex haplotypes associated with rheumatoid arthritis

scientific article published in 2004

Drug-resistant genotypes and multi-clonality in Plasmodium falciparum analysed by direct genome sequencing from peripheral blood of malaria patients

scientific article published in 2011

Erratum: Genome-wide association analyses identifies a susceptibility locus for tuberculosis on chromosome 18q11.2

scholarly article published in Nature Genetics

Evaluating the performance of malaria genetics for inferring changes in transmission intensity using transmission modelling

scientific article published on 08 September 2020

Further evidence supporting a role for gs signal transduction in severe malaria pathogenesis

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G6PD gene variants and its association with malaria in a Sri Lankan population

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Genetic determinants of anti-malarial acquired immunity in a large multi-centre study

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Genetic determinants of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase activity in Kenya

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Genetic polymorphisms associated with anti-malarial antibody levels in a low and unstable malaria transmission area in southern Sri Lanka

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Genome-wide and fine-resolution association analysis of malaria in West Africa

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Genome-wide association analyses identifies a susceptibility locus for tuberculosis on chromosome 18q11.2.

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Genomic analysis of local variation and recent evolution in Plasmodium vivax

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Genomic epidemiology of the current wave of artemisinin resistant malaria

scholarly article by Roberto Amato et al published 22 May 2015 in bioRxiv

Geographic-genetic analysis of Plasmodium falciparum parasite populations from surveys of primary school children in Western Kenya

scientific article published on 5 September 2017

Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency and the risk of malaria and other diseases in children in Kenya: a case-control and a cohort study

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Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase polymorphisms and susceptibility to mild malaria in Dogon and Fulani, Mali

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Haplotype analyses of haemoglobin C and haemoglobin S and the dynamics of the evolutionary response to malaria in Kassena-Nankana district of Ghana

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Haplotype association between haptoglobin (Hp2) and Hp promoter SNP (A-61C) may explain previous controversy of haptoglobin and malaria protection

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Haplotype block structure of the cytochrome P450 CYP2C gene cluster on chromosome 10

scientific article published in September 2005

Haplotype heterogeneity and low linkage disequilibrium reduce reliable prediction of genotypes for the ‑α 3.7I form of α-thalassaemia using genome-wide microarray data [version 2; peer review: 2 approved]

scientific article published on 01 January 2020

Haptoglobin and sickle cell polymorphisms and risk of active trachoma in Gambian children

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Heterogeneous alleles comprising G6PD deficiency trait in West Africa exert contrasting effects on two major clinical presentations of severe malaria

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High-throughput genotyping assays for identification of glycophorin B deletion variants in population studies

scientific article published on 16 December 2020

High-throughput genotyping of Anopheles mosquitoes using intact legs by Agena Biosciences iPLEX.

scientific article published in October 2015

Host candidate gene polymorphisms and clearance of drug-resistant Plasmodium falciparum parasites

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Human candidate gene polymorphisms and risk of severe malaria in children in Kilifi, Kenya: a case-control association study

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Human candidate polymorphisms in sympatric ethnic groups differing in malaria susceptibility in Mali

scientific article (publication date: 2013)

Identification of common genetic variation that modulates alternative splicing

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Implications of inter-population linkage disequilibrium patterns on the approach to a disease association study in the human MHC class III.

scientific article published on 28 April 2006

Imputation-based meta-analysis of severe malaria in three African populations

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Innate immunity in ocular Chlamydia trachomatis infection: contribution of IL8 and CSF2 gene variants to risk of trachomatous scarring in Gambians

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Interferon-gamma polymorphisms and risk of iron deficiency and anaemia in Gambian children

scientific article published on 02 March 2020

Investigating the drivers of the spatio-temporal patterns of genetic differences between Plasmodium falciparum malaria infections in Kilifi County, Kenya

scientific article published on 13 December 2019

Investigation of host candidate malaria-associated risk/protective SNPs in a Brazilian Amazonian population

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Lack of association of interferon regulatory factor 1 with severe malaria in affected child-parental trio studies across three African populations

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Large-scale association analysis of TNF/LTA gene region polymorphisms in type 2 diabetes

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Localization of a long-range cis-regulatory element of IL13 by allelic transcript ratio mapping

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Malaria Host Candidate Genes Validated by Association With Current, Recent, and Historical Measures of Transmission Intensity

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Micro-epidemiological structuring of Plasmodium falciparum parasite populations in regions with varying transmission intensities in Africa

scientific article (publication date: 14 February 2017)

Multiple populations of artemisinin-resistant Plasmodium falciparum in Cambodia

scientific article published on 28 April 2013

Natural diversity of the malaria vector Anopheles gambiae

scholarly article by Alistair Miles et al published 22 December 2016 in bioRxiv

Nucleotide and haplotypic diversity of the NOS2A promoter region and its relationship to cerebral malaria

scholarly article by David Burgner et al published 1 March 2004 in Human Genetics

Pivotal role for endothelial tetrahydrobiopterin in pulmonary hypertension

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Population genetic analysis of Plasmodium falciparum parasites using a customized Illumina GoldenGate genotyping assay

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Positive selection of a CD36 nonsense variant in sub-saharan Africa, but no association with severe malaria phenotypes

scientific article published on 29 April 2009

Red blood cell tension protects against severe malaria in the Dantu blood group

scientific article published on 16 September 2020

Resistance to malaria through structural variation of red blood cell invasion receptors

scientific article published on 18 May 2017

Resistance to malaria through structural variation of red blood cell invasion receptors

scholarly article published 26 October 2016

Response of the splenic dendritic cell population to malaria infection

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Seasonal childhood anaemia in West Africa is associated with the haptoglobin 2-2 genotype

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Severe anemia in Malawian children

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Susceptibility to sequelae of human ocular chlamydial infection associated with allelic variation in IL10 cis-regulation

scientific article published on 18 October 2007

THE REAL McCOIL: A method for the concurrent estimation of the complexity of infection and SNP allele frequency for malaria parasites.

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TLR9 polymorphisms in African populations: no association with severe malaria, but evidence of cis-variants acting on gene expression

scientific article published on 13 March 2009

Tetrahydrobiopterin-dependent preservation of nitric oxide-mediated endothelial function in diabetes by targeted transgenic GTP-cyclohydrolase I overexpression

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The African Genome Variation Project shapes medical genetics in Africa

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The ferroportin Q248H mutation protects from anemia, but not malaria or bacteremia

scientific article published on 04 September 2019

Tumor necrosis factor and lymphotoxin-alpha polymorphisms and severe malaria in African populations

scientific article published on February 2009

Two complement receptor one alleles have opposing associations with cerebral malaria and interact with α+thalassaemia.

scientific article published on 25 April 2018

Validating discovered Cis-acting regulatory genetic variants: application of an allele specific expression approach to HapMap populations

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Whole genome sequencing of Plasmodium falciparum from dried blood spots using selective whole genome amplification

scientific article (publication date: 11 August 2016)

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