Loss of balancing selection in the βS globin locus

BMC Medical Genetics

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Salih, Niven A ^a   Hussain, Ayman A ^a   Almugtaba, Ibrahim A ^a,b   Elzein, Abeir M ^a,c   Elhassan, Ibrahim M ^a   Khalil, Eltahir A G ^a   Ishag, Hani B ^a   Mohammed, Hiba S ^a   Kwiatkowski, Dominic ^c   Ibrahim, Muntaser E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KHARTOUM   (Sudan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KHARTOUM   (Sudan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA GLOBIN; HEMOGLOBIN A; HEMOGLOBIN S;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; DISEASE COURSE; ENDEMIC DISEASE; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEVER; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC LINKAGE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GLOBIN GENE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; NATURAL SELECTION; PARASITEMIA; POPULATION DIFFERENTIATION; PREVALENCE; PROTEIN POLYMORPHISM; SUDAN; VOMITING; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; INTERVIEW; NEWBORN; PATHOGENICITY; PLASMODIUM; POPULATION GENETICS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SICKLE CELL TRAIT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOTYPE; HEMOGLOBIN, SICKLE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALARIA; PLASMODIUM; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; SELECTION, GENETIC; SICKLE CELL TRAIT; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77649127616     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712350     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2350-11-21     Document Type: Article

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