Change of Positive Selection Pressure on HIV-1 Envelope Gene Inferred by Early and Recent Samples

HIV-1 infection has been on the rise in Japan recently, and the main transmission route has changed from blood transmission in the 1980s to homo- and/or hetero-sexual transmission in the 2000s. The lack of early viral samples with clinical information made it difficult to investigate the possible vi...

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Main Authors: Yoshida, Izumi, Sugiura, Wataru, Shibata, Junko, Ren, Fengrong, Yang, Ziheng, Tanaka, Hiroshi
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science 2011
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3079721/