Evidence for malaria selection of a CR1 haplotype in Sardinia

R Kosoy, M Ransom, H Chen, M Marconi, F Macciardi, N Glorioso, PK Gregersen, D Cusi and MF Seldin Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine, Rowe Program in Human Genetics, University of California, Davis, CA, USA; Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA; Centro Trasfusionale e di Immunoematologia, Fondazione IRCCS Ca’ Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milano, Italy; Universita degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy; Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA; Hypertension and Related Diseases Centre, Chair of Emergency Medicine, Universita di Sassari, Sassari, Italy; Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, North Shore LIJ Health System, Manhasset, NY, USA and Genomics and Bioinformatics Unit, Fondazione Filarete, Milan, Italy