Increased microerythrocyte count in homozygous α+- thalassaemia contributes to protection against severe malarial anaemia

PLoS Medicine

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 0494-0501

  Fowkes, Freya J I ^a,b   Allen, Stephen J ^c,e   Allen, Angela ^c   Alpers, Michael P ^d,f   Weatherall, David J ^c   Day, Karen P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d PAPUA NEW GUINEA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Papua New Guinea)

^e SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^f CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA THALASSEMIA; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ERYTHROCYTE COUNT; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALARIA CONTROL; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MALE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PREDICTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; BLOOD; CASE CONTROL STUDY; ERYTHROCYTE; GENETICS; HOMOZYGOTE; INFANT; IRON DEFICIENCY ANEMIA; METABOLISM; PARASITOLOGY;

HEMOGLOBIN;

ALPHA-THALASSEMIA; ANEMIA, HYPOCHROMIC; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ERYTHROCYTE COUNT; ERYTHROCYTES; FEMALE; HEMOGLOBINS; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALE; PAPUA NEW GUINEA;

EID: 41549115445     PISSN: 15491277     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0050056     Document Type: Article

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