The emergence and maintenance of sickle cell hotspots in the Mediterranean

Infection, Genetics and Evolution

Volumn 12, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1543-1550

  Penman, Bridget S ^a   Gupta, Sunetra ^a   Buckee, Caroline O ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Epistasis; Malaria; Mediterranean; Metapopulation; Sickle cell; Thalassaemia

Indexed keywords

ALPHA THALASSEMIA; ARTICLE; BETA THALASSEMIA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENDEMIC DISEASE; EPISTASIS; GENE FLOW; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; MALARIA; METAPOPULATION; MORBIDITY; POPULATION MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SICKLE CELL; SICKLE CELL ANEMIA; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SUSCEPTIBLE POPULATION;

ALPHA-THALASSEMIA; BETA-THALASSEMIA; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENDEMIC DISEASES; EPISTASIS, GENETIC; GENE FLOW; GENE FREQUENCY; GREECE; ITALY; MEDITERRANEAN ISLANDS; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; MODELS, GENETIC;

EID: 84865353861     PISSN: 15671348     EISSN: 15677257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.meegid.2012.06.001     Document Type: Article

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