Additionally, if we looked at the association of G6PD deficiency and malaria susceptibility, the studies were more inconsistent, showing that G6PD deficiency was protective in heterozygous females (Bienzle, Ayeni, Lucas, & Luzzatto, 1972; Bienzle, Guggenmoos‐Holzmann, & Luzzatto, 1979; Clark et al., 2008; Ruwende et al., 1995) or had no effect on the susceptibility to uncomplicated malaria in either hemizygous males or heterozygous females (Enevold et al., 2005). Here, G6PD is linked to G6PD deficiency.