Assertion: alpha thalassemia | /r/HasSubevent | advantage
Facets:
value: against malaria infection
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
Source sentences:
text: In 2008, a joint team from the New York University School of Medicine and the University of Oxford, working with children in Papua New Guinea who have alpha thalassemia, found that their red blood cells were unusually small and more abundant, resulting in a mild form of anemia, compared with red blood cells of children without the genetic mutation that leads to the thalassemia.9 They went on to show that the alpha thalassemia resulted in an advantage against malaria infection.