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The evolutionary origins of Southeast Asian Ovalocytosis.
Infection, genetics and evolution : journal of molecular epidemiology and evolutionary genetics in infectious diseases - 1 Aug 2015
Paquette A M, Harahap A, Laosombat V, Patnode J M, Satyagraha A, Sudoyo H, Thompson M K, Yusoff N M, Wilder J A
Abstract excerpt
Southeast Asian Ovalocytosis (SAO) is a common red blood cell disorder that is maintained as a balanced polymorphism in human populations. In individuals heterozygous for the SAO-causing mutation there are minimal detrimental effects and well-documented protection from severe malaria caused by Plasmodium vivax and Plasmodium falciparum; however, the SAO-causing mutation is fully lethal in utero when homozygous....
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