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Genetic variants in nuclear-encoded mitochondrial genes influence AIDS progression.
PloS one - 21 Sept 2010
Hendrickson Sher L, Lautenberger James A, Chinn Leslie Wei, Malasky Michael, Sezgin Efe, Kingsley Lawrence A, Goedert James J, Kirk Gregory D, Gomperts Edward D, Buchbinder Susan P, Troyer Jennifer L, O'Brien Stephen J
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: The human mitochondrial genome includes only 13 coding genes while nuclear-encoded genes account for 99% of proteins responsible for mitochondrial morphology, redox regulation, and energetics. Mitochondrial pathogenesis occurs in HIV patients and genetically, mitochondrial DNA haplogroups with presumed functional differences have been associated with differential AIDS progression....
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