Malaria-protective traits at odds in Africa?

Nature Genetics

Volumn 37, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 1160-1162

  Wellems, Thomas E ^a   Fairhurst, Rick M ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN A; HEMOGLOBIN S;

ALPHA THALASSEMIA; EPISTASIS; GENE LOSS; GENETIC CORRELATION; GENETIC EPISTASIS; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC TRAIT; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HERITABILITY; HETEROZYGOSITY; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMAN; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFECTION RISK; IRON DEFICIENCY ANEMIA; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MORPHOLOGICAL TRAIT; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SHORT SURVEY; SICKLE CELL ANEMIA;

ALPHA-THALASSEMIA; ANIMALS; HEMOGLOBIN, SICKLE; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMANS; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC;

EID: 27644596375     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: 15461718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng1105-1160     Document Type: Short Survey

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