Malaria and Sickle Cell Anemia: Putting an Old Hypothesis to the Test
Sickle cell trait provides a heterozygote advantage against malaria, exemplifying natural selection's impact on human genetics and disease resistance.
Topics
- heterozygous
- homozygous
- heterozygote
- natural selection
- HbAS
- Punnett square
- autosomal
- carrier
- epidemiology
- genotype
- hemoglobin
- heterozygote advantage
- malaria
- parasite
- pedigree
- phenotype
- recessive inheritance pattern
- sickle cell anemia
- sickle cell trait