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Homozygosity and risk of childhood death due to invasive bacterial disease

BACKGROUND: Genetic heterozygosity is increasingly being shown to be a key predictor of fitness in natural populations, both through inbreeding depression, inbred individuals having low heterozygosity, and also through chance linkage between a marker and a gene under balancing selection. One importa...

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Autores principales: Lyons, Emily J, Amos, William, Berkley, James A, Mwangi, Isaiah, Shafi, Mohammed, Williams, Thomas N, Newton, Charles R, Peshu, Norbert, Marsh, Kevin, Scott, J Anthony G, Hill, Adrian VS
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2714084/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19523202
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2350-10-55