Population structure of Helicobacter pylori among ethnic groups in Malaysia: recent acquisition of the bacterium by the Malay population |
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| Authors: | Chin Yen Tay Hazel Mitchell Quanjiang Dong Khean-Lee Goh Ian W Dawes Ruiting Lan |
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| Institution: | (1) School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences, University of New South Wales, NSW 2052 Sydney, Australia;(2) Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpar, Malaysia |
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| Abstract: | Background
Helicobacter pylori is a major gastric bacterial pathogen. This pathogen has been shown to follow the routes of human migration by their geographical
origin and currently the global H. pylori population has been divided into six ancestral populations, three from Africa, two from Asia and one from Europe. Malaysia
is made up of three major ethnic populations, Malay, Chinese and Indian, providing a good population for studying recent H. pylori migration and admixture. |
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