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Homozygosity and risk of childhood death due to invasive bacterial disease

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Medical Genomics, June 2009
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Title
Homozygosity and risk of childhood death due to invasive bacterial disease
Published in
BMC Medical Genomics, June 2009
DOI 10.1186/1471-2350-10-55
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Authors

Emily J Lyons, William Amos, James A Berkley, Isaiah Mwangi, Mohammed Shafi, Thomas N Williams, Charles R Newton, Norbert Peshu, Kevin Marsh, J Anthony G Scott, Adrian VS Hill

Abstract

Genetic heterozygosity is increasingly being shown to be a key predictor of fitness in natural populations, both through inbreeding depression, inbred individuals having low heterozygosity, and also through chance linkage between a marker and a gene under balancing selection. One important component of fitness that is often highlighted is resistance to parasites and other pathogens. However, the significance of equivalent loci in human populations remains unclear. Consequently, we performed a case-control study of fatal invasive bacterial disease in Kenyan children using a genome-wide screen with microsatellite markers.

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The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 83 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 2 2%
Colombia 1 1%
Tanzania, United Republic of 1 1%
Canada 1 1%
Unknown 78 94%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 13 16%
Student > Ph. D. Student 12 14%
Student > Bachelor 11 13%
Student > Master 9 11%
Professor 6 7%
Other 15 18%
Unknown 17 20%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 26 31%
Medicine and Dentistry 22 27%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 6 7%
Social Sciences 2 2%
Linguistics 1 1%
Other 6 7%
Unknown 20 24%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 6. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 05 May 2010.
All research outputs
#6,426,505
of 25,373,627 outputs
Outputs from BMC Medical Genomics
#422
of 2,444 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#34,297
of 122,968 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Medical Genomics
#4
of 18 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,373,627 research outputs across all sources so far. This one has received more attention than most of these and is in the 74th percentile.
So far Altmetric has tracked 2,444 research outputs from this source. They receive a mean Attention Score of 4.4. This one has done well, scoring higher than 82% of its peers.
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