Article
Frequencies of the CC chemokine receptor 5 delta 32 allele in various populations of defined racial background.
Biomedicine & pharmacotherapy = Biomedecine & pharmacotherapie - 1 Jan 1997
Lucotte G
Abstract excerpt
The 32-nucleotide deletion (delta 32) within the chemokine co-receptor CCR5 gene was studied in 1,031 DNA samples from various racial origins. The mutation is absent in 48 Vietnamese living in Paris, and we confirm that delta 32 allele is very rare in a sample of 302 individuals originating from...
Topics
- Africa South of the Sahara
- Africa, Northern
- Alleles
- Blood Donors
- DNA
- Female
- France
- Genotype
- Heterozygote
- Homozygote
- Humans
- Male
- Models, Genetic
