Potential Pitfalls in Estimating Viral Load Heritability
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Potential Pitfalls in Estimating Viral Load Heritability.
In HIV patients, the set-point viral load (SPVL) is the most widely used predictor of disease severity. Yet SPVL varies over several orders of magnitude between patients. The heritability of SPVL quantifies how much of the variation in SPVL is due to transmissible viral genetics. There is currently no clear consensus on the value of SPVL heritability, as multiple studies have reported apparentl...
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عنوان ژورنال: Trends in Microbiology
سال: 2016
ISSN: 0966-842X
DOI: 10.1016/j.tim.2016.04.008