nef gene sequence variation among HIV-1-infected African children

HIV Medicine

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 75-84

  Chakraborty, Rana ^a,b,f   Reinis, M ^c,d   Rostron, T ^b   Philpott, S ^c   Dong, T ^b   D'Agostino, A ^a   Musoke, R ^a   de Silva, E ^e   Stumpf, M ^e   Weiser, B ^c   Burger, H ^c   Rowland Jones, S L ^b  

^a Nyumbani Children's Home   (Kenya)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c WADSWORTH CENTER   (United States)

^d INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Czech Republic)

^e IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^f ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Africa; AIDS; Children; Coreceptor polymorphisms; Disease progression; Host immunogenetics; nef gene

Indexed keywords

NEF PROTEIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE COURSE; ENDEMIC DISEASE; GENE DELETION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; IMMUNOGENETICS; INFANT; KENYA; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENESIS; PERINATAL INFECTION; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION; VIRUS STRAIN;

ADOLESCENT; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; GENES, MHC CLASS I; GENES, NEF; HIV INFECTIONS; HIV LONG-TERM SURVIVORS; HIV-1; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; VIRAL LOAD;

EID: 33645994804     PISSN: 14642662     EISSN: 14681293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-1293.2006.00341.x     Document Type: Article

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