Hereditary diseases are the price of protection against infections

Saturday, September 3, 2016 - 05:01 in Biology & Nature

Balancing selection is responsible for helping us fend off pathogens, but also for the occurrence of mutations in our genome that predispose us to hereditary diseases.

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