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Estimating the rate of intersubtype recombination in early HIV-1 group M strains.
Journal of virology - 1 Feb 2013
Ward Melissa J, Lycett Samantha J, Kalish Marcia L, Rambaut Andrew, Leigh Brown Andrew J
Abstract excerpt
West Central Africa has been implicated as the epicenter of the HIV-1 epidemic, and almost all group M subtypes can be found there. Previous analysis of early HIV-1 group M sequences from Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of Congo, formerly Zaire, revealed that isolates from a number of individuals fall in different positions in phylogenetic trees constructed from sequences from opposite ends of the genome as a...
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