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The global distribution of the Duffy blood group
- Abstract:
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Blood group variants are characteristic of population groups, and can show conspicuous geographic patterns. Interest in the global prevalence of the Duffy blood group variants is multidisciplinary, but of particular importance to malariologists due to the resistance generally conferred by the Duffy-negative phenotype against Plasmodium vivax infection. Here we collate an extensive geo-database of surveys, forming the evidence-base for a multi-locus Bayesian geostatistical model to generate gl...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- Springer Nature Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Nature Communications Journal website
- Volume:
- 2
- Article number:
- 266
- Publication date:
- 2011-04-05
- Acceptance date:
- 2011-03-03
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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2041-1723
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- Language:
- English
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- UUID:
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- Local pid:
- pubs:131043
- Source identifiers:
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131043
- Deposit date:
- 2012-12-19
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- Copyright holder:
- Macmillan Publishers Limited
- Copyright date:
- 2011
- Notes:
- © 2011 Macmillan Publishers Limited. All rights reserved. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercialShare Alike 3.0 Unported License.
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