The genetics of common diseases: the implications of population variability.

doi:10.1002/9780470514887.ch16

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The genetics of common diseases: the implications of population variability.

Ciba Foundation symposium - 1 Jan 1996

Weatherall D J

Abstract excerpt

The results of recent work on the inheritance of susceptibility to malaria suggest that, over what may have been a relatively short evolutionary period, a remarkably diverse series of gene families have been modified in response to the selective drive of this infectious disease. The phenotypic co...

Topics

Animals
Chronic Disease
Disease
Erythrocytes
Genetic Predisposition to Disease
Genetic Variation
Humans
Malaria
Population
Selection, Genetic

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