Tracing sickle cell back to one child

I was wrong Saharan Africa...an erythrocyte mutation in response to malaria causing epidermal ulceration on a genomic level...WOW....

http://www.cell.com/ajhg/fulltext/S0002-9297(18)30048-X

OK, now I'm officially impressed...I had to train to treat sickle cell ulcers before my disability, I'm quite well aware how unusually painful tey are, unlike diabetic ulcers, they resemble vascular ulcers in that regard...that there was a sub-Saharan relation found to malaria I find esp enlightening...very, very impressive research...very....

I've gotta tell UA, the potential ramifications of that for infectious disease research are positively unimaginable, if it happens in one pathology, it can potentially have happened in innumerable others....