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Effect of chemokine receptor mutations on heterosexual human immunodeficiency virus transmission.
The Journal of infectious diseases - 1 Sept 1999
Lockett S F, Alonso A, Wyld R, Martin M P, Robertson J R, Gore S M, Leen C L, Brettle R P, Yirrell D L, Carrington M, Brown A J
Abstract excerpt
To assess the effect of mutations at the CCR-2 and CCR-5 loci on heterosexual human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) transmission, 144 persons heterosexually exposed to HIV (infected and uninfected [EU]) and 57 HIV-positive index partners were genotyped. A significantly higher frequency of 64I heterozygotes at CCR-2 was observed in HIV-positive than in EU women (P=.02, relative risk=1.6). The allele frequency of 64I...
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