Effects of natural selection and gene conversion on the evolution of human glycophorins coding for MNS blood polymorphisms in malaria-endemic African populations

American Journal of Human Genetics

Volumn 88, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 741-754

  Ko, Wen Ya ^a   Kaercher, Kristin A ^a   Giombini, Emanuela ^b   Marcatili, Paolo ^b   Froment, Alain ^c   Ibrahim, Muntaser ^d   Lema, Godfrey ^e   Nyambo, Thomas B ^e   Omar, Sabah A ^f   Wambebe, Charles ^g   Ranciaro, Alessia ^a   Hirbo, Jibril B ^a   Tishkoff, Sarah A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^c MUSÉE DE L HOMME   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KHARTOUM   (Sudan)

^e MUHIMBILI UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH AND ALLIED SCIENCES   (Tanzania)

^f KENYA MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Kenya)

^g International Biomedical Research in Africa   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLYCOPHORIN; GLYCOPHORIN A; GLYCOPHORIN B;

ADULT; AFRICA; ARTICLE; BLOOD GROUP MNSS SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DNA POLYMORPHISM; ENDEMIC DISEASE; ERYTHROCYTE; ERYTHROCYTE MEMBRANE; ETHNICITY; EVOLUTION; EXON; FEMALE; GENE CONVERSION; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALE; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

EID: 79958855323     PISSN: 00029297     EISSN: 15376605     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2011.05.005     Document Type: Article

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