Gene variant found in those with African ancestry increases odds of HIV infection

Saturday, July 19, 2008 - 13:14 in Biology & Nature

A variant of a gene found only in people of African ancestry increases the odds of becoming infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV-1) by 40 percent, according to a long-term study of African Americans reported in the latest issue of the journal Cell Host and Microbe...

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