A new computational model suggests that certain mutations that block infection by the most dangerous species of malaria have not become widespread in people because of the parasite’s effects on the immune system. Bridget Penman of the University of Warwick, U.K., and Sylvain Gandon of the CNRS and Montpellier University, France, present these findings in the open-access journal PLOS Computational Biology.
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