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Global Database-Driven Assessment of HIV-1 Adaptation to the Immune Repertoires of Human Populations.
Journal of virology - 1 Oct 2015
Karakas Aram, Brumme Zabrina L, Poon Art F Y
Abstract excerpt
Associations between HIV-1 cytotoxic T lymphocyte (CTL) escape mutations and their restricting human leukocyte antigen (HLA) alleles imply that HIV could adapt to divergent HLA repertoires of human populations globally. Using publicly available databases, we examine the relationship between the frequencies of 19 experimentally validated CTL escape mutations in HIV-1 reverse transcriptase and their restricting HLA...
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