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Profound bias in interferon-gamma and interleukin-6 allele frequencies in western Kenya, where severe malarial anemia is common in children.
The Journal of infectious diseases - 1 Oct 2002
Gourley Ian S, Kurtis Jonathan D, Kamoun Malek, Amon Joseph J, Duffy Patrick E
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The intensity of malaria transmission is related to the pattern of malarial disease observed in different regions, but populations may also differ in their underlying predispositions to severe malarial anemia or cerebral malaria. In western Kenya, where severe malarial anemia is much more common than cerebral malaria, the distributions of tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-alpha, interleukin (IL)-10, transforming growth...
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