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Donor-Recipient Identification in Para- and Poly-phyletic Trees Under Alternati...
Romero-Severson, Ethan O; Bulla, Ingo; Hengartner, Nick; Bártolo, Inês; Abecasis, Ana; Azevedo-Pereira, José M; Taveira, Nuno; Leitner, ThomasCopyright © 2017, Genetics.; Diversity of the founding population of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 (HIV-1) transmissions raises many important biological, clinical, and epidemiological issues. In up to 40% of sexual infections there is clear evidence for multiple founding variants, which can influence the efficacy of putative prevention methods and the reconstruction of epidemiologic histories. To infer w...
Evolution of the human immunodeficiency virus type 2 envelope in the first year...
Rocha, Cheila; Calado, Rita; Borrego, Pedro; Marcelino, José M.; Bártolo, Inês; Rosado, Lino; Cavaco-Silva, Patrícia; Gomes, Perpétua; Família, CarlosBackground: Differently from HIV-1, HIV-2 disease progression usually takes decades without antiretroviral therapy and the majority of HIV-2 infected individuals survive as elite controllers with normal CD4+ T cell counts and low or undetectable plasma viral load. Neutralizing antibodies (Nabs) are thought to play a central role in HIV-2 evolution and pathogenesis. However, the dynamic of the Nab response and r...