However there was only a modest correlation between PvLDH and parasitemia (ρ = 0.27, P = 0.033), and between pLDH and parasitemia (ρ = 0.28, P = 0.028), comparable to the correlation between parasitemia and plasma HRP2 among patients with falciparum malaria (ρ  = 0.41, P<0.0001) (Fig. 2). This evidence concerns the gene HDGFL2 and Plasmodium falciparum malaria.