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Human Adaptation to Disease

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04-10-2009 11:55 AM 		Reply to: Message 4 by Stagamancer
03-11-2009 8:58 PM

Do you know if aids immunity is caused by a mutation in the adaptive immune system, or to some other system or cells?
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The European mutation that helps resist HIV infection has to do with CCR5 receptors in T cells. Another pair of mutations has NK cells involved somehow.
Genetic resistance to HIV
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Those are innate immunity, right? It's been 40 years since I took biology.....
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