Homozygosity and risk of childhood death due to invasive bacterial disease.
BACKGROUND: Genetic heterozygosity is increasingly being shown to be a key predictor of fitness in natural populations, both through inbreeding depression, inbred individuals having low heterozygosity, and also through chance linkage between a marker and a gene under balancing selection. One import...
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| Format: | Journal article |
| Language: | English |
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2009
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