The genetic structuring of host populations by their pathogens
Infectious disease has long been recognised as a potent selective force. Malaria provides us with our best examples of recent human evolution, through the changes it has wrought within human globin genes. Mutations responsible for genetic blood disorders, such as the thalassaemias and sickle cell an...
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University of Oxford
2012
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| Online Access: | http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.558717 |