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Hypervariable region 1 sequence stability during hepatitis C virus replication in chimpanzees.
Journal of virology - 1 Apr 2000
Ray S C, Mao Q, Lanford R E, Bassett S, Laeyendecker O, Wang Y M, Thomas D L
Abstract excerpt
The putative envelope 2 (E2) gene of hepatitis C virus (HCV) contains a highly variable region referred to as hypervariable region 1 (HVR1). We hypothesized that this genetic variability is driven by immune selection pressure, rather than representing the accumulation of random mutations in a region with relatively little functional constraint. To test this hypothesis, we examined the E2 sequence of a human...
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