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The role of SNPs in the α-chain of the IL-7R gene in CD4+ T-cell recovery in HIV-infected African patients receiving suppressive cART.
Genes and immunity - 1 Jan 2012
Rajasuriar R, Booth D R, Gouillou M, Spelman T, James I, Solomon A, Chua K, Stewart G, Deeks S, Bangsberg D R, Muzoora C, Cameron P U, Hunt P, Martin J, Lewin S R
Abstract excerpt
We previously found an association between faster CD4+ T-cell recovery in HIV-infected patients receiving combination antiretroviral therapy (cART) and interleukin-7 receptor-α (IL-7Rα) haplotype-2 in a predominantly Caucasian cohort. This study aims to determine whether this association was also significant in Africans. Patients were recruited from the Uganda AIDS Rural Treatment Outcomes (UARTO) cohort (n=352)....
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