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Published online 21 June 2007 |
Nature
| doi:10.1038/news070618-15
Corrected online: 26 June 2007
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Ancient disease resistance made us vulnerable to HIV
Early immune resistance may have helped to set stage for modern pandemic.
Humans may be susceptible to infection by HIV because our ancient ancestors evolved resistance to another virus.
That's the conclusion reached by researchers who have compared our own genome sequence with that of apes, in search of signs of old viral attacks.
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