Development of the sickle-corpuscles malaria

www.myspace.com A gene known as HbS was the center of a medical and evolutionary detective story that began in the mid-1940s in Africa. Doctors found that patients who have sickle cell anemia, a serious hereditary blood disease, more likely to survive malaria, a disease who die around 1.2 million people annually. What was puzzling was why sickle cell disease was so prevalent in some African populations. As a "bad" genes could - the mutation that causes sometimes fatal ...



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