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Human Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme may be under malaria selection pressure: a need to explore

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The authors are thankful to the Director, ICMR-National Institute of Malaria Research for encouragement and support for preparing the manuscript. AD & AT are funded by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), New Delhi and the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), New Delhi, respectively.

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  1. Aparna Tiwari and Auley De contributed equally to this work.

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    Aparna Tiwari, Auley De & Abhinav Sinha

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    Aparna Tiwari & Veena Pande

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First draft was written by AT and AD, edited by VP. AS concieved the idea and critically reviewed the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.

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Tiwari, A., De, A., Pande, V. et al. Human Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme may be under malaria selection pressure: a need to explore. Human Cell 34, 289–290 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13577-020-00459-y

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