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HIV-1/AIDS susceptibility and copy number variation in CCL3L1, a gene encoding a natural ligand for HIV-1 co-receptor CCR5.
Cytogenetic and genome research - 1 Jan 2008
Nakajima T, Kaur G, Mehra N, Kimura A
Abstract excerpt
Variations of gene copy number in the human genome are increasingly recognized as a genetic factor in phenotypic variation. Human CC chemokine ligand 3-like 1 gene (CCL3L1), which is located on human chromosome 17q11.2, is highly variable in copy number owing to having a hot spot for segmental duplications. CCL3L1, a natural ligand for HIV-1 co-receptor CCR5, is a potent HIV-1-suppressive chemokine. CCL3L1 copy...
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