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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

Submitted by patrick sampao on November 26, 2009 - 06:45
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T.S. MacFie, E. Nerrienet, R.E. Bontrop, N.I. Mundy
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Infection, Genetics and Evolution, Volume 9, Issue 6, December 2009, Pages 1248-1252, doi:10.1016/j.meegid.2009.06.025
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Here we investigate whether the genomic signatures of plasmodial infection found in humans are also present in chimpanzees.

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