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Interleukin-10 (IL-10) pathway: genetic variants and outcomes of HIV-1 infection in African American adolescents.
PloS one - 14 Oct 2010
Shrestha Sadeep, Wiener Howard W, Aissani Brahim, Song Wei, Shendre Aditi, Wilson Craig M, Kaslow Richard A, Tang Jianming
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Immunological and clinical outcomes can vary considerably at the individual and population levels during both treated and untreated HIV-1 infection. Cytokines encoded by the interleukin-10 gene (IL10) family have broad immunomodulatory function in viral persistence, and several SNPs in the IL10 promoter sequence have been reported to influence pathogenesis or acquisition of HIV-1 infection....
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