Hereditary red cell disorders and malaria resistance

Haematologica

Volumn 93, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 961-963

  Durand, Pierre M ^a   Coetzer, Theresa L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Malaria; Pyruvate kinase deficiency

Indexed keywords

CELL MEMBRANE PROTEIN; ERYTHROCYTE ENZYME; HEMOGLOBIN; PYRUVATE KINASE;

BETA THALASSEMIA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EDITORIAL; ENZYME DEFICIENCY; ERYTHROCYTE DISORDER; ERYTHROCYTE MEMBRANE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC DISORDER; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; HEMOGLOBINOPATHY; HETEROZYGOSITY; HOMOZYGOSITY; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; INFECTION RESISTANCE; MALARIA; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; POINT MUTATION;

ANIMALS; ERYTHROCYTES; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNITY, NATURAL; MALARIA; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MICE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PYRUVATE KINASE;

EID: 46849113039     PISSN: 03906078     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3324/haematol.13371     Document Type: Editorial

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