However, the consistent association of rs3211938 with 3 different measures of malaria transmission intensity suggests that CD36 may indeed contribute to protection against malaria, but perhaps through its role in macrophages as a nonopsonic mediator of phagocytosis or through its role in hemostasis and thrombosis, rather than as an endothelial receptor for infected erythrocytes. The gene discussed is CD36; the disease is malaria.