Sentences with phrase «provides protection against malaria»

It could be a more complicated version of the familiar case of sickle cell anemia: having two mutant copies of a certain gene causes the disease, whereas having only one mutant copy provides protection against malaria.

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Professor Dominic Kwiatkowski, one of the lead authors of the paper, from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, said: «We can now say, unequivocally, that genetic variations in this region of the human genome provide strong protection against severe malaria in real - world settings, making a difference to whether a child lives or dies.

In a study published in Nature Medicine, a team of Scandinavian scientists explains the mechanisms behind the protection against malaria that blood type O provides.