Thalassaemia and malaria, revisited.

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Haldane's attractive hypothesis that the high gene frequencies for thalassaemia in the Mediterranean population may have resulted from heterozygote advantage in regions where Plasmodium falciparum malaria was common in the past has been extremely difficult to verify at the population or experimental level. However, the molecular era has provided some powerful new tools to attack this old problem. It is now clear...

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