A recent paper (Zhang et al., PLoS Biol., 2019) shines remarkable new light onto the malaria antigenic variation story. Using CRISPR/Cas9-targeted chromosome breaks and long-read whole-genome sequencing, they followed the fate of detached subtelomeric PfEMP1/var genes and demonstrated that these initiate cascades of recombination at sites far from the original break.
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