Selection bias at the heterosexual HIV-1 transmission bottleneck

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Volumn 345, Issue 6193, 2014, Pages

  Carlson, Jonathan M ^a   Schaefer, Malinda ^b   Monaco, Daniela C ^b   Batorsky, Rebecca ^c   Claiborne, Daniel T ^b   Prince, Jessica ^b   Deymier, Martin J ^b   Ende, Zachary S ^b   Klatt, Nichole R ^b,s   DeZiel, Charles E ^a   Lin, Tien Ho ^a,t   Peng, Jian ^a,u   Seese, Aaron M ^c   Shapiro, Roger ^d   Frater, John ^e,f,g   Ndung'u, Thumbi ^c,h,i   Tang, Jianming ^j   Goepfert, Paul ^j   Gilmour, Jill ^k,l   Price, Matt A ^m,n   Kilembe, William ^o   Heckerman, David ^a   Goulder, Philip J R ^h,p   Allen, Todd M ^c   Allen, Susan ^o,q,r   Hunter, Eric ^b,o,q   more..

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^f NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^h UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

ⁱ MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR INFECTION BIOLOGY   (Germany)

^j University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^k INTERNATIONAL AIDS VACCINE INITIATIVE   (United States)

^l IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^m International AIDS Vaccine Initiative   (United States)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^o Zambia Emory HIV Research Project   (Zambia)

^p UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^q EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^r EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^s UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^t GOOGLE INC   (United States)

^u MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FITNESS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC VARIATION; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; NATURAL SELECTION; RISK FACTOR;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CONSENSUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DONOR SITE; FEMALE; FITNESS; GENDER; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HETEROSEXUALITY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1 INFECTION; IN VIVO STUDY; INFLAMMATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RISK FACTOR; SELECTION BIAS; STATISTICAL MODEL; VIRUS LOAD; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; ZAMBIA; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POINT MUTATION; STATISTICS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, INFECTIOUS; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HETEROSEXUALITY; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; HIV INFECTIONS; HIV-1; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS PROTEINS; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POINT MUTATION; RISK FACTORS; SELECTION, GENETIC; VIRAL LOAD;

EID: 84904114340     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1254031     Document Type: Article

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