«Natural resistance to malaria linked to variation in human red blood cell receptors: First study to identify protective effect of
glycophorin gene rearrangements on malaria.»
Not exact matches
We found some people have a complex
rearrangement of GYPA and GYPB
genes, forming a hybrid
glycophorin, and these people are less likely to develop severe complications of the disease.»
They discovered that people who have a particular
rearrangement of the
glycophorin genes had a 40 per cent reduced risk of severe malaria.