PLoS Genetics (Dec 2009)

Common genetic variation and the control of HIV-1 in humans.

  • Jacques Fellay,
  • Dongliang Ge,
  • Kevin V Shianna,
  • Sara Colombo,
  • Bruno Ledergerber,
  • Elizabeth T Cirulli,
  • Thomas J Urban,
  • Kunlin Zhang,
  • Curtis E Gumbs,
  • Jason P Smith,
  • Antonella Castagna,
  • Alessandro Cozzi-Lepri,
  • Andrea De Luca,
  • Philippa Easterbrook,
  • Huldrych F Günthard,
  • Simon Mallal,
  • Cristina Mussini,
  • Judith Dalmau,
  • Javier Martinez-Picado,
  • José M Miro,
  • Niels Obel,
  • Steven M Wolinsky,
  • Jeremy J Martinson,
  • Roger Detels,
  • Joseph B Margolick,
  • Lisa P Jacobson,
  • Patrick Descombes,
  • Stylianos E Antonarakis,
  • Jacques S Beckmann,
  • Stephen J O'Brien,
  • Norman L Letvin,
  • Andrew J McMichael,
  • Barton F Haynes,
  • Mary Carrington,
  • Sheng Feng,
  • Amalio Telenti,
  • David B Goldstein,
  • NIAID Center for HIV/AIDS Vaccine Immunology (CHAVI)

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1000791
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 5, no. 12
p. e1000791

Abstract

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To extend the understanding of host genetic determinants of HIV-1 control, we performed a genome-wide association study in a cohort of 2,554 infected Caucasian subjects. The study was powered to detect common genetic variants explaining down to 1.3% of the variability in viral load at set point. We provide overwhelming confirmation of three associations previously reported in a genome-wide study and show further independent effects of both common and rare variants in the Major Histocompatibility Complex region (MHC). We also examined the polymorphisms reported in previous candidate gene studies and fail to support a role for any variant outside of the MHC or the chemokine receptor cluster on chromosome 3. In addition, we evaluated functional variants, copy-number polymorphisms, epistatic interactions, and biological pathways. This study thus represents a comprehensive assessment of common human genetic variation in HIV-1 control in Caucasians.