Distribution of the HIV resistance CCR5- 32 allele among Egyptians and Syrians
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Distribution of the HIV resistance CCR532 allele among Egyptians and Syrians Abdel-Halim Salem a,b, Mark A. Batzer a,∗ a Department of Biological Sciences, Biological Computation and Visualization Center, Center for Bio-Modular Multiscale Systems, Louisiana State University, 202 Life Sciences Building, Baton Rouge, LA 70803, United States b Department of Anatomy, Faculty of Medicine, Suez Canal University, Ismailia, Egypt
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