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Rome Researchers Discover Malaria "Shield"

The fields of pharmacology and immunology will benefit from the findings of a study performed by researchers from Rome¹s Sapienza University, who revealed that a genetic mutation could prevent malaria. David Modiano and Mario Coluzzi discovered that the populations of marshy areas in West Africa, for instance Burkina Faso, were less likely to develop malaria because they were the carriers of a mutated gene in their hemoglobin. The mutation, which acts like a protective shield, reduces malaria risk with 93% for persons who inherited the mutation from both parents and with 30% if derived from only one parent.

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