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Increased frequency of CD4+T cells expressing fractalkine receptor CX3CR1 in patients with HTLV-1 associated myelopathy/tropical spastic paraparesis (HAM/TSP), but its AIDS susceptible polymorphisms are not associated with the disease.
Journal of the neurological sciences - 15 Mar 2008
Saito Mineki, Usuku Koichiro, Arimura Kimiyoshi, Izumo Shuji, Osame Mitsuhiro, Ohara Yoshiro
Abstract excerpt
To investigate whether fractalkine receptor CX3CR1 polymorphisms that have been associated with rapid progression to AIDS among HIV-1 positive individuals also affects the risk of human T cell lymphotropic virus type 1 (HTLV-1) associated myelopathy/tropical spastic paraparesis (HAM/TSP), we compared the allele frequencies of V249I and T280M between 233 HAM/TSP patients and 213 HTLV-1 seropositive asymptomatic...
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