Positively Selected G6PD -Mahidol Mutation Reduces Plasmodium vivax Density in Southeast Asians
- 11 December 2009
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 326 (5959), 1546-1549
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1178849
Abstract
Ghosts of Selection: Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) deficiency is the most common enzyme deficiency of humans, and it has been long suspected to exert an effect on Plasmodium falciparum malaria in Africa. Likewise, the increase in prevalence of the G6PD-Mahidol 487 A allele among Karen people in Thailand, who only in the past few thousand years have migrated into malarious zones, may be the result of selection by Plasmodium vivax malaria. P. vivax has recently been implicated in more severe disease than previously suspected, providing both a direct selective effect through mortality and an indirect selective effect through morbidity and reproductive failure. Louicharoen et al. (p. 1546 ) link population-genetic evidence for positive selection in an 8-year family-based study of 3000 Karen individuals and reveal that there is an association between the presence of the G6PD-Mahidol 487 A allele and a reduction in the density of P. vivax parasites circulating in the bloodstreams of infected individuals. The mutation appears to exert its effect on the physiology of immature red blood cells, which are the preferred niche for P. vivax but not of P. falciparum .This publication has 29 references indexed in Scilit:
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