Abstract
Sickle cell haemoglobin (HbS) confers protection, albeit incomplete, from severe malaria. A recent study by Band etal. in Nature on parasite genomic variation of severe malaria cases identifies parasite genomic regions with alleles associated with severe disease risk in HbS individuals. The protective effect of HbS depends therefore on parasite genotype.
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