ABCB1 and malaria: ABCB1 gene is highly polymorphic and more than 50 variants (SNPs) has been reported in the coding region among which rs1128503, rs2032582 and rs1045642 are the most common and these have been associated with various diseases including cancer, epilepsy, respiratory diseases, malaria, asthma, cardiovascular disease etc [19, 32–34].