Page 1/17 Plasmodium falciparum Multidrug Resistance Gene-1 N86Y-Y184F-D1246Y Polymorphisms in Northern Nigeria: Implications for the continued use of artemether-lumefantrine in the region Auwal Adamu Ahmadu Bello University Mahmoud Suleiman Jada Modibbo Adama University of Technology Hauwa Mohammed Sani Haruna Kaduna Polytechnic Bassa Obed Yakubu Ahmadu Bello University Mohammed Auwal Ibrahim Ahmadu Bello University Emmanuel Oluwadare Balogun Ahmadu Bello University Takaya Sakura London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Centre of Global Change and Health Daniel Ken Inaoka Nagasaki Daigaku Kiyoshi Kita Nagasaki Daigaku Kenji Hirayama Nagasaki Daigaku Richard Culleton Ehime Daigaku Mohammed Nasir Shuaibu (  nshuaibu@abu.edu.ng ) Ahmadu Bello University Research Keywords: Antimalarial drug resistance, P. falciparum, single nucleotide polymorphisms, pfmdr1, haplotypes