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Distribution of the CCR5-delta32 deletion in Southwest Germany.
Anthropologischer Anzeiger; Bericht uber die biologisch-anthropologische Literatur - 1 Jan 2015
Hütter Gero, Blüthgen Christian, Elvers-Hornung Susanne, Klüter Harald, Bugert Peter
Abstract excerpt
A 32 base pair deletion in the c-c chemokine receptor gene 5 (CCR5) leads to an inactive protein. Carriers of this deletion must have had a selective advantage because the allelic frequency of the CCR5-delat32 mutation is much higher than expected. Furthermore, there is a decline from North to South Europe. For Germany there are just very few cross-sectional surveys available. Here we investigated a large number...
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