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Nature, position, and frequency of mutations made in a single cycle of HIV-1 replication.
Journal of virology - 1 Oct 2010
Abram Michael E, Ferris Andrea L, Shao Wei, Alvord W Gregory, Hughes Stephen H
Abstract excerpt
There is considerable HIV-1 variation in patients. The extent of the variation is due to the high rate of viral replication, the high viral load, and the errors made during viral replication. Mutations can arise from errors made either by host DNA-dependent RNA polymerase II or by HIV-1 reverse transcriptase (RT), but the relative contributions of these two enzymes to the mutation rate are unknown. In addition,...
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