Abstract
It is now recognized that to fully understand the role of host genetic variation on susceptibility to HIV-1 infection, investigations must be extended to African populations. We sought to determine if genetic variation in IL10 are associated with HIV-1 infection in a West African cohort in Mali. HIV-infected and -uninfected individuals were genotyped for three common single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) located at positions -592 (C/A), -819 (C/T), and -1082 (G/A) of the IL10 promoter. We found that the ATA haplotype, which has been previously associated with low IL-10 expression, was the most represented in the cohort. Although we observed a trend toward an increased frequency of ATA/ATA carriage in HIV-infected compared with -uninfected individuals, the difference was not statistically significant. Similarly, individual IL10 SNPs were not significantly enriched in the HIV-infected group, suggesting that IL10 genetic variants are not associated with HIV-1 in this West African cohort from Mali.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 57-61 |
Number of pages | 5 |
Journal | AIDS research and human retroviruses |
Volume | 37 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Jan 2021 |
Keywords
- Africa
- HIV
- IL-10
- Mali
- SNPs
- genetics
- haplotypes
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Immunology
- Virology
- Infectious Diseases