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The Changes of Positive Selection Within env Gene of HIV-1 B', CRF07_BC and CRF08_BC from China Over Time.
Current HIV research - 1 Jan 2017
Li Tingting, Sun Binlian, Jiang Yanyan, Zeng Haiyan, Li Yanpeng, Wang Yan, Yang Rongge
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: It is not clear about the possible evolutionary changes of the three predominant strains of HIV-1 in China over the course of the epidemic. Envelope (env) gene of HIV-1 is a good target for this evolutionary pressure for its enriched epitopes. METHODS: We collected 159 full or part of env sequences sampled between 1997 and 2010 from database of China, we calculated the genetic distance, detected the...
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