In the malaria group, 40.46 % (70/173) of the overall detected msp-1 genotypes belonged to MAD20 allelic family while K1 and RO33 allelic families represented respectively 32.94 % (57/173) and 26.58 % (46/173) of the total msp-1 genotypes (Table 2). This evidence concerns the gene ATAD1 and malaria.