Haemoglobin S and haemoglobin C: 'Quick but costly' versus 'slow but gratis' genetic adaptations to Plasmodium falciparum malaria

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 789-799

  Modiano, David ^a   Bancone, Germana ^a   Ciminelli, Bianca Maria ^b   Pompei, Fiorenza ^b   Blot, Isa ^c   Simporé, Jacques ^d   Modiano, Guido ^b  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^c Centre National de Transfusion Sanguine   (Burkina Faso)

^d Centre de Recherche Biomoleculaire Pietro Annigoni CERBA   (Burkina Faso)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; HEMOGLOBIN C; HEMOGLOBIN S;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; BURKINA FASO; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MICROSATELLITE MARKER; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; CODON; HAPLOTYPES; HEMOGLOBIN C; HEMOGLOBIN, SICKLE; HUMANS; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

EID: 40549098690     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: 14602083     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddm350     Document Type: Article

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