Retraction to: Nature Medicine https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-019-0481-8, published online 3 June 2019.

In view of the fact that the authors of “CCR5-∆32 is deleterious in the homozygous state in humans” have retracted their report, we wish to retract our News & Views article, which dealt with the above study and was based on the veracity of its data.