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Association of chemokine receptor gene variants with HIV-1 genotype predicted tropism.
HIV medicine - 1 Nov 2014
Parczewski M, Urbańska A, Maciejewska K, Clark J, Leszczyszyn-Pynka M
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVES: As a switch from chemokine (C-C motif) receptor 5 [CCR5 (R5)] to chemokine (C-X-C motif) receptor 4 [CXCR4 (X4)] HIV-1 tropism is associated with symptomatic and AIDS stages of infection, while chemokine receptor gene variants modify the tempo of HIV disease progression, we aimed to analyse the association between pretreatment HIV-1 tropism and chemokine polymorphisms known to restrict disease...
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