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SUMMARY:What can human population genetics teach us about malaria? - Dr Br
 idget Penman\, University of Oxford
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CONTACT:Heledd Eavis
DESCRIPTION:Infectious diseases exert huge selective pressures on their ho
 sts\, generating an array of population genetic patterns.  I am interested
  in what such patterns\, in the genes of humans and other primates\, can t
 each us about malaria. I will present evolutionary-epidemiological models 
 of malaria infection blocking mutations\, such as the mutation responsible
  for the Duffy negative blood group. I will discuss what the global distri
 bution of these mutations may indicate about malaria parasites.
LOCATION:Lecture Theater\, Department of Pathology\, Tennis Court Road
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