Article
[Genetic resistance to malaria].
Meditsinskaia parazitologiia i parazitarnye bolezni - 1 Jan 2000
Larina S N, Sakharova T V, Chebyshev N V
Abstract excerpt
Genetic resistance to malaria is associated with various genetic factors, including erythrocytic variability and variability of the genes involved into the pathogenetic process. Some genetic anomalies resulted from selective malaria pressure, which brought into existence different forms of hemoglobinopathies, glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency, and no Duffy antigens, and ovalocytosis, etc., which...
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