Article
AIDS: a role for host genes.
Hospital practice (1995) - 15 Jul 1998
O'Brien S J
Abstract excerpt
Suspicion that human genes affect the natural history of AIDS has been confirmed by discoveries of three such genes, one of which confers near-total immunity in about 1% of Caucasians. The findings suggest a novel therapeutic target: not HIV but the host's cooperation with it. They also herald an...
Topics
- Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
- Animals
- Chromosomes, Human, Pair 3
- Genome, Human
- Genotype
- Humans
- Mutation
- Receptors, CCR5
- Receptors, Chemokine