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Associations between MHC class I and susceptibility to HIV-2 disease progression.
Journal of human virology - 1 Jan 2000
Diouf Khady, Sarr Abdoulaye Dieng, Eisen Geoffrey, Popper Stephen, Mboup Souleymane, Kanki Phyllis
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OBJECTIVES: Human immunodeficiency virus type 2 (HIV-2) progression to disease is significantly slower than that of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1). Genetic determinants for susceptibility to disease progression were hypothesized to play a more significant role in this infection compared with HIV-1. We sought to identify common human lymphocyte antigen (HLA) alleles in the Senegalese population and to...
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