Evidence of over-dominance for sickle cell trait in a population sample from Buenaventura, Colombia
Sickle cell disease is a hereditary disease caused by a hemoglobin variant, known as hemoglobin S.This hemoglobin variant has a high frequency in areas where malaria is prevalent, because heterozygous genotype has a protective action against malaria infec
- Autores:
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Ortega, Diana Carolina
Fong Reales, Cristian Javier
Cardenas, Heiber
Barreto, Guillermo
- Tipo de recurso:
- Article of journal
- Fecha de publicación:
- 2015
- Institución:
- Universidad Cooperativa de Colombia
- Repositorio:
- Repositorio UCC
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- OAI Identifier:
- oai:repository.ucc.edu.co:20.500.12494/41323
- Acceso en línea:
- https://doi.org/10.5897/IJGMB2014.0106
https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85073366805&doi=10.15381%2frivep.v30i3.16602&partnerID=40&md5=aafdf53e4925f3a6b2a768bf8c5ae50b
https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12494/41323
- Palabra clave:
- Hemoglobin S
Buenaventura
mlaria resistant
over-dominance
fitness
selection coefficient
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- License
- http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_14cb