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G6PD Deficiency Prevalence and Estimates of Affected Populations in Malaria Endemic Countries: A Geostatistical Model-Based Map

• Rosalind E. Howes, Frédéric B Piel, +8 authors Simon I. Hay
• PLoS medicine
• 2012

BACKGROUND Primaquine is a key drug for malaria elimination. In addition to being the only drug active against the dormant relapsing forms of Plasmodium vivax, primaquine is the sole effective… (More)

Global epidemiology of sickle haemoglobin in neonates: a contemporary geostatistical model-based map and population estimates

• Frédéric B Piel, Anand P. Patil, +7 authors Simon I. Hay
• The Lancet
• 2013

BACKGROUND Reliable estimates of populations affected by diseases are necessary to guide efficient allocation of public health resources. Sickle haemoglobin (HbS) is the most common and clinically… (More)

The global distribution of the Duffy blood group

• Rosalind E. Howes, Anand P. Patil, +11 authors Simon I. Hay
• Nature communications
• 2011

Blood group variants are characteristic of population groups, and can show conspicuous geographic patterns. Interest in the global prevalence of the Duffy blood group variants is multidisciplinary,… (More)

Global distribution of the sickle cell gene and geographical confirmation of the malaria hypothesis

• Frédéric B Piel, Anand P. Patil, +5 authors Simon I. Hay
• Nature communications
• 2010

It has been 100 years since the first report of sickle haemoglobin (HbS). More than 50 years ago, it was suggested that the gene responsible for this disorder could reach high frequencies because of… (More)

The distribution of haemoglobin C and its prevalence in newborns in Africa

• Frédéric B Piel, Rosalind E. Howes, +6 authors Simon I. Hay
• Scientific reports
• 2013

Haemoglobin C (HbC) is one of the commonest structural haemoglobin variants in human populations. Although HbC causes mild clinical complications, its diagnosis and genetic counselling are important… (More)

Online Biomedical Resources for Malaria-Related Red Cell Disorders

• Frédéric B Piel, Rosalind E. Howes, +4 authors Simon I. Hay
• Human mutation
• 2013

Warnings about the expected increase of the global public health burden of malaria-related red cell disorders are accruing. Past and present epidemiological data are necessary to track spatial and… (More)

Genomic evidence for population specific selection in Nilo-Saharan and Niger-Congo linguistic groups in Africa

• Julius Mulindwa, Harry Noyes, +14 authors Enock Matovu
• 2017

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