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Helena Skar1, Pedro Borrego, Timothy C Wallstrom, Mattias Mild, José Maria Marcelino, Helena Barroso, Nuno Taveira, Thomas Leitner, Jan Albert.
Abstract
The objective of this study was to estimate and compare the evolutionary rates of HIV-2 and HIV-1. Two HIV-2 data sets from patients with advanced disease were compared to matched HIV-1 data sets. The estimated mean evolutionary rate of HIV-2 was significantly higher than the estimated rate of HIV-1, both in the gp125 and in the V3 region of the env gene. In addition, the rate of synonymous substitutions in gp125 was significantly higher for HIV-2 than for HIV-1, possibly indicating a shorter generation time or higher mutation rate of HIV-2. Thus, the lower virulence of HIV-2 does not appear to translate into a lower rate of evolution.Entities:
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Year: 2010 PMID: 20463072 PMCID: PMC2898231 DOI: 10.1128/JVI.02548-09
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Virol ISSN: 0022-538X Impact factor: 5.103