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Nature Medicine  2, 395 - 396 (1996)
doi:10.1038/nm0496-395

HIV and HLA: Confusion or complexity?

Adrian V.S. Hill

Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics & Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford OX3 9DU, UK

The search for an elusive association between MHC polymorphism and susceptibility to HIV and AIDS continues (pages 405−411).

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