A national DNA bank in The Gambia, West Africa, and genomic research in developing countries

G Sirugo, MSVD Loeff, O Sam, O Nyan, M Pinder… - Nature …, 2004 - nature.com
DNA Bank, the first National Bio-Bank developed in Africa, was funded in November 2000 by
the Medical Research Council (MRC) as one of 14 DNA … in West African populations and a …

[PDF][PDF] Distribution and DNA Conservation of Sapindaceae Juss. in Western Africa.

TO Adeyemi, OT Ogundipe, JD Olowokudejo - 2012 - ir.unilag.edu.ng
… High quality genomic DNA were obtained and deposited in the DNA bank at the Royal
Botanic gardens Kew. This research can be seen as a key step in the conservation of the family …

Ten years of barcoding at the African Centre for DNA Barcoding

…, K Yessoufou, H van der Bank, M Van der Bank - …, 2017 - cdnsciencepub.com
… have used these core DNA barcodes to generate a barcode library for southern Africa. To
date… Collectively, our work demonstrates the diverse applications of DNA barcoding in ecology, …

Conservation genetics of bush mango from central/west Africa: implications from random amplified polymorphic DNA analysis

AJ Lowe, ACM Gillies, J Wilson… - Molecular Ecology, 2000 - Wiley Online Library
… This is the first significant DNA-based assessment of nuclear genetic variation in a forest
tree species from central/west Africa and may therefore provide data for more general …

[PDF][PDF] … resolution of African silver catfish, Schilbe intermedius (Actinopterygii: Siluriformes: Schilbeidae) from seven populations across different African river systems

HF Van der Bank, R Greenfield, BH Daru… - Acta Ichthyologica et …, 2012 - aiep.pensoft.net
… In this study, we investigate the genetic diversity and species delimitation within African silver
catfish. … such that West African populations are genetically distinct from the eastern African

Complexities in the genetic structure of Anopheles gambiae populations in west Africa as revealed by microsatellite DNA analysis

GC Lanzaro, YT Touré, J Carnahan… - Proceedings of the …, 1998 - National Acad Sciences
… gambiae from two villages in Mali, west Africa. Populations at each site were composed of
the Bamako and Mopti forms and the sibling species, Anopheles arabiensis. Karyotypes were …

Flow cytometric analysis reveals different nuclear DNA contents in cultivated Fonio (Digitaria spp.) and some wild relatives from West-Africa

H Adoukonou-Sagbadja, V Schubert, A Dansi… - Plant Systematics and …, 2007 - Springer
DNA amounts of 118 cultivated fonio accessions representing 94 landraces collected from
the major growing areas of West-Africa (… ternata showed similar 2C DNA contents of 1.869 ± …

Sickle gene. Its origin and diffusion from West Africa.

JG Mears, HM Lachman, R Cabannes… - The Journal of …, 1981 - Am Soc Clin Investig
… The common occurrence of the 13-kb Hpa 1 fragment among normal subjects in West
Africa suggests that this DNA alteration is nondeleterious, andthat the mutation occurred in an …

DNA-based identification of lichen-forming fungi: can publicly available sequence databases aid in lichen diversity inventories of Mount Cameroon (West Africa)?

EA Orock, SD Leavitt, BA Fonge, LLST CLAIR… - The …, 2012 - cambridge.org
… The diversity of lichenized fungi in western Africa is … GenBank? To address these questions,
we sampled commonly occurring lichens at six sites on Mount Cameroon in western Africa, …

HIV-1 DNA in peripheral blood mononuclear cells is strongly associated with HIV-1 disease progression in recently infected West African adults

AK Minga, X Anglaret, ML Chaix… - JAIDS Journal of …, 2008 - journals.lww.com
… To analyze the association between the HIV-1 DNA level in peripheral blood mononuclear
cells (PBMCs) and disease progression in recently infected West African adults. …