Extended Data Fig. 1: A meta-analysis of previous African studies investigating the effect of α-thalassemia and G6PD A and A- polymorphisms on uncomplicated febrile malaria.
From: Malaria is a cause of iron deficiency in African children
Overall represents a fixed-effect meta-analysis of study-specific incidence rate ratio (IRR) by genetic polymorphism. Error bars indicate 95% confidence intervals. n shows the number of individuals included in the analysis. Few studies included G6PD homozygous females and numbers were small (Table S2). Het, heterozygous; Hom, homozygous.
