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Science 27 September 1996:
Vol. 273. no. 5283, pp. 1797 - 1798
DOI: 10.1126/science.273.5283.1797
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Research News

Jon Cohen

Population geneticist Stephen O'Brien of the National Cancer Institute and a large group of collaborators have amassed strong confirmatory evidence that people who have two mutant copies of the gene for a chemokine receptor known as CCR5 (also known as CKR5) are highly resistant to HIV infection. The findings, published on page 1856, also indicate that people who do get infected with HIV, but have one mutant copy of the CCR5 gene, progress to AIDS more slowly than do people without the mutation.

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