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Red blood cell tension protects against severe malaria in the Dantu blood group
Malaria has had a major effect on the human genome, many protective polymorphisms such as sickle cell trait having been selected to high frequencies in malaria endemic regions(1,2). Recently, it was shown that the blood group variant Dantu provides 74% protection against all forms of severe malaria...
Autores principales: | Kariuki, Silvia N., Marin-Menendez, Alejandro, Introini, Viola, Ravenhill, Benjamin J., Lin, Yen-Chun, Macharia, Alex, Makale, Johnstone, Tendwa, Metrine, Nyamu, Wilfred, Kotar, Jurij, Carrasquilla, Manuela, Rowe, J. Alexandra, Rockett, Kirk, Kwiatkowski, Dominic, Weekes, Michael P., Cicuta, Pietro, Williams, Thomas N., Rayner, Julian C. |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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2020
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7116803/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32939086 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2726-6 |
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