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The action of falciparum malaria on the human and chimpanzee genomes compared: absence of evidence for a genomic signature of malaria at HBB and G6PD in three subspecies of chimpanzee.
Infection, genetics and evolution : journal of molecular epidemiology and evolutionary genetics in infectious diseases - 1 Dec 2009
MacFie T S, Nerrienet E, Bontrop R E, Mundy N I
Abstract excerpt
The historical association between Plasmodium and primates has meant that many Plasmodium species have coevolved with specific primate hosts. However, unlike humans that are infected by species such as P. falciparum that cause severe malaria, many non-human primates are infected by Plasmodium spe...
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