Article
CCR5 chemokine receptor genotype frequencies among Puerto Rican HIV-1-seropositive individuals.
Boletin de la Asociacion Medica de Puerto Rico - 1 Jan 2000
Gonzalez S, Tirado G, Revuelta G, Yamamura Y, Lu Y, Nerurkar V R, Yanagihara R
Abstract excerpt
Some individuals remain uninfected by human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1), despite multiple sexual contacts with subjects with confirmed HIV-1 infection. Several studies have confirmed that individuals who are homozygous for a 32 base pair (bp) deletion mutation in the chemokine receptor...
Topics
- Adolescent
- Adult
- Child
- Child, Preschool
- Female
- Genotype
- HIV Seropositivity
- Heterozygote
- Humans
- Infant
- Infant, Newborn
- Male
- Middle Aged
- Puerto Rico
- Receptors, CCR5
- Sequence Deletion