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CCR5-Δ32 gene variant frequency in the Turkish Cypriot population.
Brazilian journal of microbiology : [publication of the Brazilian Society for Microbiology] - 1 Dec 2020
Fahrioglu Umut, Ergoren Mahmut Cerkez, Mocan Gamze
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Recent UNAIDS reports (December 2019) indicate that 37.9 million people have been affected by HIV infection around the globe in 2018, of which 1.7 million are cited as new infections. Human immunodeficiency virus-1 (HIV-1) requires both the CD4 receptor, as the primary receptor, and a chemokine co-receptor to gain entry into the cell. In addition to the WT allele for C-C motif chemokine receptor 5 (CCR5-wt),...
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