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Human genetics and malaria resistance
Malaria has been the pre-eminent cause of early mortality in many parts of the world throughout much of the last five thousand years and, as a result, it is the strongest force for selective pressure on the human genome yet described. Around one third of the variability in the risk of severe and com...
Autores principales: | Kariuki, Silvia N., Williams, Thomas N. |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Springer Berlin Heidelberg
2020
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7271956/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32130487 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00439-020-02142-6 |
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