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Apparent founder effect during the early years of the San Francisco HIV type 1 epidemic (1978-1979).
AIDS research and human retroviruses - 10 Oct 2000
Foley B, Pan H, Buchbinder S, Delwart E L
Abstract excerpt
HIV-1 envelope sequence variants were RT-PCR amplified from serum samples cryopreserved in San Francisco in 1978-1979. The HIV-1 subtype B env V3-V5 sequences from four homosexual men clustered phylogenetically, with a median nucleotide distance of 2.8%, reflecting a recent common origin. These early U.S. HIV-1 env variants mapped close to the phylogenetic root of the subtype B tree while env variants collected...
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