Thalassaemia and malaria, revisited

Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology

Volumn 91, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 885-890

  Weatherall, D J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA THALASSEMIA; ARTICLE; ASIA; DISEASE RESISTANCE; GENE FREQUENCY; HETEROSIS; HUMAN; IMMUNIZATION; INDIA; MALARIA; MIDDLE EAST; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; POPULATION GENETICS; SOUTHERN EUROPE; THALASSEMIA;

GENETICS, POPULATION; GLOBINS; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMANS; MALARIA; MUTATION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; THALASSEMIA;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM VIVAX;

EID: 0030671212     PISSN: 00034983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00034989760653     Document Type: Article

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