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Variability of the CD36 gene in West Africa.
Human mutation - 1 Nov 2001
Gelhaus A, Scheding A, Browne E, Burchard G D, Horstmann R D
Abstract excerpt
Studying 12 selected individuals from a malaria-endemic area in West Africa, 24 variants of the CD36 gene were found, 21 of them novel ones. These included three single-nucleotide substitutions causing non-conservative amino acid exchanges E123K, T174A, and I271T as well as a three base pair (bp) insertion resulting in the addition of an asparagine residue (N232-233ins). The E123K variant was located within the...
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