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Duplicate Immune Genes Ward Off AIDS

AFX News
01/07/05 7:50 AM PT

African-Americans had four copies of the CCL3L1 gene, compared with two and three in European-Americans and Hispanic-Americans. Each additional copy lowered the risk of acquiring HIV by between 4.5 and 10.5 percent.

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Posted by Cindy Gruwell on January 7, 2005 12:09 PM |

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