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Mannose-binding lectin gene polymorphism and its impact on human immunodeficiency virus 1 infection
Antonio Carlos Rosário Vallinoto1, Marcos Rogério Menezes-Costa, Anna Elizabeth Martins Alves
1Universidade Federal do Pará, Centro de Ciências Biológicas, Departamento de Patologia, Laboratório de Virologia, 66075-900 Belém, PA, Brazil. vallinoto@ufpa.br
Abstract:
Mannose-binding lectin (MBL) is a serum protein whose low concentration is associated with the occurrence of allele variants named MBL*B, MBL*C and MBL*D. The present study investigated the association between MBL gene polymorphism and the susceptibility to HIV-1 infection. The study of 145 HIV-1-infected subjects and 99 healthy controls showed the presence of alleles MBL*A, MBL*B and MBL*D, whose frequencies were 69%, 22% and 09% among patients and 71%, 13% and 16% among healthy controls, respectively. The presence of the variant MBL*B was associated with higher plasma viral load levels, suggesting the importance of the MBL gene polymorphism in the clinical evolution of HIV-1-infected patients.
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