Host genetic control of HIV infection involves certain polymorphisms of some chemokine receptor genes that are associated with susceptibility and progression of HIV-1 infection. Recent data suggest that two important polymorphisms in CCR2 and CCR5 chemokine receptors, CCR5Delta32 and CCR2-64I, prevent HIV transmission and delay disease progression. In this study allele and haplotype frequencies of the CCR5Delta32 and CCR2-64I mutations were determined in southern Iranian normal population using PCR and PCR restriction fragment length polymorphism (PCR-RFLP) assays. Allele frequencies and the fit to the Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium (HWE) were evaluated by Arlequin population genetic software. Frequencies of CCR5Delta32 and CCR2-64I alleles were 0.0146 and 0.1221, respectively. Moreover, higher and lower haplotype frequencies in 341 normal individuals were CCR2/CCR5 (0.8636) and CCR5/CCR2-64I (0.1217), respectively. Only one case with CCR5Delta32/CCR2-64I haplotype was found among the studied normal population. This data is the first finding on the frequencies of CCR5Delta32 and CCR2-64I alleles in Iranian population. Results of the present study suggest that low frequency of CCR5Delta32 allele may be related to higher genetic susceptibility to the HIV-1 infection in Iranians. Results also suggest that the CCR2-64I mutation is sufficiently common in Iranians and may be associated with slower HIV infection progression in Iran.
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Front Genet
September 2024
Chantal BIYA International Reference Center (CBIRC), Yaounde, Cameroon.
Background: HIV infection and its progression to AIDS depend on several factors including host genetic factors. The immunological mechanisms of host resistance to HIV infection greatly influence the prevalence of HIV in a given region. Worldwide, Cameroon not exempted, the frequency of AIDS-associated genes varies and may influence this prevalence.
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June 2024
Department of Microbiology, Genetics and Experimental Immunology, Medical University of Lodz, Lodz, Poland.
The study aimed to determine the frequency of the alleles associated with hereditary immune response in 16 historical populations and assess which evolutionary forces may have contributed to the observed frequency fluctuation. The analysed polymorphic sites are located in three genes - CCR5, CCR2 and SDF 1 (CXCL12). Protein products are involved in the innate immune response and are also involved in various types of infections, autoimmune diseases and tumours.
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February 2024
Laboratory of Immunobiology and Immunogenetics, Department of Genetics, Postgraduate Program in Genetics and Molecular Biology (PPGBM), Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
This study investigated the impacts of CCR5 promoter region polymorphisms on the development of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) by comparing CCR5 genotypes and haplotypes from SLE patients with ethnically matched controls. A total of 382 SLE patients (289 European-derived and 93 African-derived) and 375 controls (243 European-derived and 132 African-derived) were genotyped for the CCR2-64I G > A (rs1799864), CCR5-59353 C > T (rs1799988), CCR5-59356 C > T (rs41469351), CCR5-59402 A > G (rs1800023) and CCR5-59653 C > T (rs1800024) polymorphisms through polymerase chain reaction-restriction fragment length polymorphism and direct sequencing. Previous data from CCR5Δ32 analysis was included in the study to infer the CCR5 haplotypes and as a possible confounding factor in the binary logistic regression.
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August 2021
Department of Medical Microbiology, Istanbul Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey.
Introduction: Co-receptors involved in cell entry of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and mutations in genes encoding their ligands may play a role in the susceptibility to infection and resistance to the progression of the infection. The best studied mutations that can exist in these genes are the CCR5-Δ32, CCR2-64I and SDF1-3'A mutations. The frequency of these mutations vary from continent to continent and even from region to region.
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January 2022
Chantal Biya International Reference Centre, (CBIRC), Yaounde, Cameroon.
Background: There is growing evidence that polymorphisms in chemokine and chemokine receptor genes influence susceptibility to HIV infection and disease progression. However, not much is documented about the influence of these polymorphisms in HIV serodiscordant couples in Cameroon.
Objective: The objective of this study therefore was to determine the prevalence and the effect of the polymorphisms of CCR5-Δ32, CCR5 promoter 59029 A/G, CCR2-64I and SDF1-3'A gene in HIV serodiscordant couples in comparison to HIV negative seroconcordant and HIV positive seroconcordant couples in Yaoundé-Cameroon.
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