Prevalence of CCR5delta32 in Northeastern Iran

• Main Authors: Amir Tajbakhsh (Author), Mostafa Fazeli (Author), Mehdi Rezaee (Author), Faezeh Ghasemi (Author), Mastoureh Momen Heravi (Author), Aida Gholoobi (Author), Zahra Meshkat (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2019-11-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background A 32-base pair deletion (∆32) in the open reading frame (ORF) of C-C motif chemokine receptor 5 (CCR5) seems to be a protective variant against immune system diseases, especially human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1). We aimed to assess the frequency of CCR5∆32 in the healt...