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JOURNAL OF HUMAN GENETICS
Volume 67, Issue 1, Pages 65-67Publisher
SPRINGERNATURE
DOI: 10.1038/s10038-021-00958-2
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- German Federal Ministry for Education and Research
- German National Genome Research Network (NGFN)
- Projekt DEAL
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The study did not find evidence to support a strong protective effect of the PIEZO1 E756del variant on severe malaria susceptibility, contradicting previous associations.
Recently, a common genetic variant E756del in the human gene PIEZO1 was associated with protection from severe malaria. Here, we performed a genetic association study of this gain-of-function variant in a large case-control study including 4149 children from the Ashanti Region in Ghana, West Africa. The statistical analysis did not indicate an association with protection from severe malaria and, thus, providing evidence against a strong protective effect of the PIEZO1 E756del variant on severe malaria susceptibility.
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