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Heritability of Malaria in Africa
BACKGROUND: While many individual genes have been identified that confer protection against malaria, the overall impact of host genetics on malarial risk remains unknown. METHODS AND FINDINGS: We have used pedigree-based genetic variance component analysis to determine the relative contributions of...
Autores principales: | Mackinnon, Margaret J, Mwangi, Tabitha W, Snow, Robert W, Marsh, Kevin, Williams, Thomas N |
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Formato: | Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Public Library of Science
2005
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1277928/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16259530 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.0020340 |
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