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The symposium on “G6PD Deficiency, Diet, and Adaptation to Malaria” was held in Cortona, Italy on July 3,4,5 1995 under the auspices of the Congress of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES). The Congress had actually taken place in Florence in April 1995, and the G6PD symposium was a satellite session to that meeting. Professor Brunetto Chiarelli, of the Istituto di Antropologia at the University of Florence, was the program chairman for the Congress.
The general theme of the Congress was “Biodemography and Human Evolution,” and the G6PD symposium was consistent with this topic. In its broadest sense the symposium focused on biocultural factors which have influenced evolution at the G6PD locus and the pattern of population variation that has consequently emerged in this genetic system. A more specific sub-theme, reflected in the title of the symposium, was the interaction between dietary factors and the G6PD locus in providing antimalarial protection to human populations.
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Greene, L.S., Danubio, M.E. G6PD deficiency, diet, and adaptation to malaria. Hum. Evol. 12, 209–219 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02438070
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