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Genetic variants of human T-lymphotrophic virus type II in American Indian groups.
Virology - 1 Feb 1996
Biggar R J, Taylor M E, Neel J V, Hjelle B, Levine P H, Black F L, Shaw G M, Sharp P M, Hahn B H
Abstract excerpt
The human T-lymphotropic virus type II (HTLV-II) is found in many New World Indian groups in North and South America and may have entered the New World from Asia with the earliest migration of ancestral Amerindians over 15,000 years ago. To characterize the phylogenetic relationships of HTLV-II strains infecting geographically diverse Indian populations, we used polymerase chain reaction to amplify HTLV-II...
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