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Garrison-Morton-Norman History of Medicine

ALLISON, Anthony Clifford (1925 – 2014)

1925 – 2014

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1954

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Protection afforded by sickle-cell trait against subtertian malarial infection.

ALLISON, Anthony Clifford (1925 – 2014)

Allison was the first to connect a hereditary disease (sickle cell disease) to an infectious disease (malaria). He proved that heterozygous and homozygous individuals to the sickle cell trait or disease respectively s…