Site-specific amino acid frequency, fitness and the mutational landscape model of adaptation in human immunodeficiency virus type 1.

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Analysis of the intensely studied HIV-1 gp120 V3 protein region reveals that the among-population mean site-specific frequency of an amino acid is a measure of its relative marginal fitness. This surprising result may arise if populations are displaced from mutation-selection equilibrium by fluctuating selection and if the probability of fixation of a beneficial amino acid is proportional to its selection...

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