Queston about sickel cell pt's?

[AnthonyM83]

Thanks!

[hammerpcp]

On a bit of a tangent, I read something recently that I found very interesting and I don't know if it is common knowledge. There is a theory that sickle cell anemia is more prevalent in tropical places because a certain form of the disease provides some Resistance to malaria.

Sickle cell disease

[AnthonyM83]

I think it's a pretty well accepted theory, but I'll defer to:

http://sickle.bwh.harvard.edu/malaria_sickle.html

and

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/bv.fcgi?...=gnd.section.98