(1) Bed nets were allocated at random among a group of 16 Fula hamlets, where they were previously rarely used.
(2) This finding, together with the results of a previous study in Nigeria, suggest that Fulas have a predisposition to this condition.
(3) In order to question this opposition, a study was carried out among 100 Haalpulaaren mothers (Tukulors and Fulas), 50 from a village in the Sahelian area along the Senegal River and 50 from an underprivileged suburb of Dakar.
(4) They are thought to be the work of the Macina Liberation Movement (FLM), an Islamist group rooted in the Fula ethnic group.
(5) Among young children splenomegaly and malaria were less prevalent in Mandinkas than in Wollofs or Fulas, suggesting that some genetic or environmental factors protect Mandinka children from this infection.
(6) One class II DQA-DQB combination (serological specificity DQw2) was particularly common among members of the Fula ethnic group.
(7) Comparing Mandinka with Wolof and Fula, there were ethnic differences in net owning and the proportion of children sleeping in beds with a mattress.
(8) A study in the Gambia revealed that, among 3 ethnic groups, Mandinkas children had the lowest prevalence rate because almost everyone used bed nets while 1-6% of people in Fula and Wolof villages did.
(9) Among older children and adults splenomegaly was found most frequently in Fulas.
(10) Mutations in fulA probably confer resistance by lowering ornithine transcarbamoylase, thereby making the normally arginine-specific carbamoyl phosphate pool available for increased uracil synthesis.
(11) In a survey of the Fula Bande, a rural population of Senegal, deaths and causes of death have been registered during an 8-year period.
(12) Both fulA and fulD mutants suppress pyrA mutants which lack the uracil-specific carbamoyl phosphate synthetase.
Fulbe
Definition:
(n.) Same as Fulahs.
Example Sentences:
(1) Mutations in fulB and fulC do not suppress pyrA, and so may act more directly to increase uracil synthesis.
(2) The GC*1F frequency ranged from 0.785 among Fulbe to 0.847 among Mundang, that of GC*1S from 0.071 among Mafa to 0.125 among Fulbe and that of GC*2 from 0.035 among Uldeme to 0.092 among Tupuri.
(3) Group-specific component (GC) polymorphism was investigated in 1324 subjects belonging to 12 ethnic groups from North Cameroon including Daba, Fali, Fulbe, Kanuri, Mada, Mafa, Mandara, Mundang, Uldeme, Podokwo, Tali, and Tupuri.