From San Diego, at a meeting of the American Society of Human Genetics
A newly discovered genetic variation raises some people’s vulnerability to infection by HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.
People who have this difference in a single letter of their genetic code would have about a 15 percent greater risk that exposure to the virus will lead to infection than would individuals without the genetic variation.
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