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Human susceptibility to viral infection: the search for HIV-protective alleles among Africans by means of genome-wide studies.

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:Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection represents a major global health problem, with HIV now recognized as the fourth leading cause of death on a worldwide basis. One approach to developing effective anti- HIV interventions is to identify and understand the molecular mechanisms by which natural genetic variations provide protection from infection or disease progression. This approach can be used to identify human gene alleles that confer resistance or increased susceptibility to HIV infection. To date, however, this approach has been underutilized in the African population and all HIV-resistance alleles that have been described have been identified by evaluating candidate genes. This limited approach is based upon a researcher's assumption that those genes that will provide the host with a benefit can be predicted, a priori, but it does not provide for a large scale systematic screen of all possible candidate genes. Nonetheless, this method has met with some success in identifying HIV-resistance genes, mostly among the white population. The lack of a comprehensive genetic approach, both in terms of the populations studied and the percentage of the genome investigated, likely explains why all of the HIV-restriction alleles identified to date fall within two gene families, and why no resistance genes have been identified among black Africans. It is likely, as with any complex trait, that most protective alleles will provide only partial HIV resistance. Thus, HIV resistance in most persons likely arises through a QTL (quantitative trait loci) mechanism meaning that protection is a polygenic trait. This feature coupled with interpopulation genetic heterogeneity makes the candidate gene mapping approach a daunting task. A comprehensive genome-wide case-control allelic association study in the African population will maximize our chances of identifying new targets for the development of new therapeutics that have the promise of benefiting all persons infected with HIV.

journal_name

AIDS Res Hum Retroviruses

journal_title

AIDS research and human retroviruses

authors

Donfack J,Buchinsky FJ,Post JC,Ehrlich GD

doi

10.1089/aid.2006.22.925

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Has Abstract

pub_date

2006-10-01 00:00:00

pages

925-30

issue

eissn

0889-2229

issn

1931-8405

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Human susceptibility to viral infection: the search for HIV-protective alleles among Africans by means of genome-wide studies.