Carregant...

Epistatic interactions between genetic disorders of hemoglobin can explain why the sickle-cell gene is uncommon in the Mediterranean

Several human genetic disorders of hemoglobin have risen in frequency because of the protection they offer against death from malaria, sickle-cell anemia being a canonical example. Here we address the issue of why this highly protective mutant, present at high frequencies in subSaharan Africa, is un...

Descripció completa

Guardat en:
Dades bibliogràfiques
Autors principals: Penman, Bridget S., Pybus, Oliver G., Weatherall, David J., Gupta, Sunetra
Format: Artigo
Idioma:Inglês
Publicat: National Academy of Sciences 2009
Matèries:
Accés en línia:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2786893/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19955437
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0910840106
Etiquetes: Afegir etiqueta
Sense etiquetes, Sigues el primer a etiquetar aquest registre!