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Genetic Variants of Duffy and Hemoglobin S Genes in an Afrodescendant Population from Colombia.
Human biology - 1 Nov 2018
Ortega Diana Carolina, Cárdenas Heiber, Barreto Guillermo
Abstract excerpt
Malaria is an endemic disease in a large part of Colombia, and the city of Buenaventura reports one of the highest malaria infection rates. Some genetic variants confer resistance to malaria, such as the heterozygote for hemoglobin S (HbS) and the homozygous variant FYBES/FYBES of the Duffy gene. The aim of this work was the molecular characterization of these genes in an Afrodescendant population from the urban...
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