ReviewTrends in parasitology2022
Revisiting the malaria hypothesis: accounting for polygenicity and pleiotropy.
Review in Trends in parasitology, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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- Estimating the Number of Polygenic Diseases Among Six Mutually Exclusive Entities of Non-Tumors and Cancer.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024Review
- Local genetic adaptation to habitat in wild chimpanzees.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024Article
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- Neither the African-Centric S47 Nor P72 Variant of TP53 Is Associated With Reduced Risk of Febrile Malaria in a Malian Cohort Study.The Journal of infectious diseases · 2023Article
- A novel ENU-induced Cpox mutation causes microcytic hypochromic anemia in mice.Experimental animals · 2022Article
- Does fetal hemoglobin inhibit the malarial parasite Plasmodium falciparum?American journal of hematology · 2022Article
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Abstract
The malaria hypothesis predicts local, balancing selection of deleterious alleles that confer strong protection from malaria. Three protective variants, recently discovered in red cell genes, are indeed more common in African than European populations. Still, up to 89% of the heritability of severe malaria is attributed to many genome-wide loci with individually small effects. Recent analyses of hundreds of genome-wide association studies (GWAS) in humans suggest that most functional, polygenic variation is pleiotropic for multiple traits. Interestingly, GWAS alleles and red cell traits associated with small reductions in malaria risk are not enriched in African populations. We propose that other selective and neutral forces, in addition to malaria prevalence, explain the global distribution of most genetic variation impacting malaria risk.
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