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    • The Case for Selection at CCR5-Δ32 

      Walsh, Emily; Schaffner, Steve F; Varilly, Patrick; Fry, Ben; Hutcheson, Holli B; Cullen, Mike; Mikkelsen, Tarjei S; Roy, Jessica; Patterson, Nick; Sabeti, Pardis Christine; Cooper, Richard; Reich, David Emil; Altshuler, David Matthew; O'Brien, Stephen James; Lander, Eric Steven (Public Library of Science, 2005)
      The C-C chemokine receptor 5, 32 base-pair deletion (CCR5-Δ32) allele confers strong resistance to infection by the AIDS virus HIV. Previous studies have suggested that CCR5-Δ32 arose within the past 1,000 y and rose to ...
    • Common Genetic Variation and the Control of HIV-1 in Humans 

      Fellay, Jacques; Ge, Dongliang; Shianna, Kevin V.; Colombo, Sara; Ledergerber, Bruno; Cirulli, Elizabeth T.; Urban, Thomas J.; Zhang, Kunlin; Gumbs, Curtis E.; Castagna, Antonella; Cozzi-Lepri, Alessandro; De Luca, Andrea; Easterbrook, Philippa; Günthard, Huldrych F.; Mallal, Simon; Mussini, Cristina; Dalmau, Judith; Martinez-Picado, Javier; Miro, José M.; Obel, Niels; Wolinsky, Steven M.; Martinson, Jeremy J.; Detels, Roger; Margolick, Joseph B.; Jacobson, Lisa P.; Descombes, Patrick; Antonarakis, Stylianos E.; Beckmann, Jacques S.; McMichael, Andrew J.; Haynes, Barton F.; Carrington, Mary; Telenti, Amalio; Goldstein, David B.; NIAID Center for HIV/AIDS Vaccine Immunology (CHAVI); Smith, Jason P.; O'Brien, Stephen James; Letvin, Norman Lee; Feng, Sheng (Public Library of Science, 2009)
      To extend the understanding of host genetic determinants of HIV-1 control, we performed a genome-wide association study in a cohort of 2,554 infected Caucasian subjects. The study was powered to detect common genetic ...