作者
Adrian VS Hill, Catherine EM Allsopp, Dominic Kwiatkowski, Nicholas M Anstey, Patrick Twumasi, Pamela A Rowe, Stephen Bennett, David Brewster, Andrew J McMichael, Brian M Greenwood
发表日期
1991/8/15
期刊
Nature
卷号
352
期号
6336
页码范围
595-600
出版商
Nature Publishing Group UK
简介
A large case-control study of malaria in West African children shows that a human leucocyte class I antigen (HLA-Bw53) and an HLA class II haplotype (DRB1*1302–DQB1*0501), common in West Africans but rare in other racial groups, are independently associated with protection from severe malaria. In this population they account for as great a reduction in disease incidence as the sickle-cell haemoglobin variant. These data support the hypothesis that the extraordinary polymorphism of major histocompatibility complex genes has evolved primarily through natural selection by infectious pathogens.
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