This gave the scientists snapshots of the parasite's
genome at multiple time points, allowing them to track evolution as it unfolded in the lab.
Not exact matches
An international team led by Ingrid Felger, from the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute in Basel, Switzerland, took advantage of genes that have
multiple copies in the parasite
genome to reveal parasites present
at concentrations that are 10
times lower than the detection limit of current standard assays.
The deCODE team was able to develop such a large dataset and catalogue of these mutations correlating whole -
genome sequence data from thousands of individuals and
multiple generations of families with information on the age of parents
at the
time their children were born.