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CCR5 Promoter Polymorphism -2459G > A: Forgotten or Ignored?


ABSTRACT: C-C chemokine receptor 5 (CCR5) polymorphisms, particularly a 32-base pair deletion (?32) in the open reading frame and -2459G > A in the promoter, are well known for their associations with HIV-1 infection and/or disease progression in a variety of studies. In this era of an HIV cure, where all the emphasis is on ?32, it seems that -2459G > A has been forgotten or ignored. There is significant importance in the incorporation of the CCR5 -2459G > A genotype information into studies evaluating new immunologic and chemotherapeutic strategies, and those designing and implementing better treatment strategies with current antiretroviral therapy, doing so would enable a better understanding of the response to the intervention, due to a mechanistic or constitutive explanation. Until we find a strategy, whether a stem-cell transplantation or CCR5 editing approach or something else, that delivers a cure to the millions, we should make use of every piece of information that may help curtail HIV/AIDS as a threat to public health.

SUBMITTER: Mehlotra RK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6678430 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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CCR5 Promoter Polymorphism -2459G > A: Forgotten or Ignored?

Mehlotra Rajeev K RK  

Cells 20190628 7


C-C chemokine receptor 5 (<i>CCR5</i>) polymorphisms, particularly a 32-base pair deletion (∆32) in the open reading frame and -2459G > A in the promoter, are well known for their associations with HIV-1 infection and/or disease progression in a variety of studies. In this era of an HIV cure, where all the emphasis is on ∆32, it seems that -2459G > A has been forgotten or ignored. There is significant importance in the incorporation of the <i>CCR5</i> -2459G > A genotype information into studies  ...[more]

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