Characterisation of the opposing effects of G6PD deficiency on cerebral malaria and severe malarial anaemia.

Geraldine M Clarke ORCID logo; Kirk Rockett ORCID logo; Katja Kivinen; Christina Hubbart; Anna E Jeffreys; Kate Rowlands; Muminatou Jallow; David J Conway ORCID logo; Kalifa A Bojang ORCID logo; Margaret Pinder; +68 more... Stanley Usen; Fatoumatta Sisay-Joof; Giorgio Sirugo; Ousmane Toure; Mahamadou A Thera ORCID logo; Salimata Konate; Sibiry Sissoko; Amadou Niangaly; Belco Poudiougou; Valentina D Mangano; Edith C Bougouma; Sodiomon B Sirima; David Modiano; Lucas N Amenga-Etego; Anita Ghansah; Kwadwo A Koram; Michael D Wilson; Anthony Enimil; Jennifer Evans; Olukemi K Amodu; Subulade Olaniyan; Tobias Apinjoh; Regina Mugri; Andre Ndi; Carolyne M Ndila; Sophie Uyoga; Alexander Macharia; Norbert Peshu; Thomas N Williams; Alphaxard Manjurano; Nuno Sepúlveda; Taane G Clark ORCID logo; Eleanor Riley; Chris Drakeley ORCID logo; Hugh Reyburn; Vysaul Nyirongo; David Kachala; Malcolm Molyneux; Sarah J Dunstan; Nguyen Hoan Phu; Nguyen Ngoc Quyen; Cao Quang Thai; Tran Tinh Hien; Laurens Manning; Moses Laman; Peter Siba; Harin Karunajeewa; Steve Allen; Angela Allen; Timothy Me Davis; Pascal Michon; Ivo Mueller; Síle F Molloy; Susana Campino ORCID logo; Angeliki Kerasidou; Victoria J Cornelius; Lee Hart; Shivang S Shah; Gavin Band; Chris Ca Spencer; Tsiri Agbenyega; Eric Achidi; Ogobara K Doumbo; Jeremy Farrar; Kevin Marsh; Terrie Taylor; Dominic P Kwiatkowski; MalariaGEN Consortium; (2017) Characterisation of the opposing effects of G6PD deficiency on cerebral malaria and severe malarial anaemia. eLife, 6. ISSN 2050-084X DOI: 10.7554/eLife.15085
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Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) deficiency is believed to confer protection against Plasmodium falciparum malaria, but the precise nature of the protective effecthas proved difficult to define as G6PD deficiency has multiple allelic variants with different effects in males and females, and it has heterogeneous effects on the clinical outcome of P. falciparum infection. Here we report an analysis of multiple allelic forms of G6PD deficiency in a large multi-centre case-control study of severe malaria, using the WHO classification of G6PD mutations to estimate each individual's level of enzyme activity from their genotype. Aggregated across all genotypes, we find that increasing levels of G6PD deficiency are associated with decreasing risk of cerebral malaria, but with increased risk of severe malarial anaemia. Models of balancing selection based on these findings indicate that an evolutionary trade-off between different clinical outcomes of P. falciparum infection could have been a major cause of the high levels of G6PD polymorphism seen in human populations.


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