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Open Forum Infect Dis. 2014 May 22;1(1):ofu018. doi: 10.1093/ofid/ofu018. eCollection 2014 Mar.

Genome-Wide Association Study of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)-1 Coreceptor Usage in Treatment-Naive Patients from An AIDS Clinical Trials Group Study.

Open forum infectious diseases

Timothy J Henrich, Paul J McLaren, Suhas S P Rao, Nina H Lin, Emily Hanhauser, Francoise Giguel, Roy M Gulick, Heather Ribaudo, Paul I W de Bakker, Daniel R Kuritzkes

Affiliations

  1. Division of Infectious Diseases , Brigham and Women's Hospital , Boston, Massachusetts ; Harvard Medical School , Boston, Massachusetts.
  2. École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne and University of Lausanne , Switzerland ; University Hospital and University of Lausanne , Switzerland ; Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics , Switzerland.
  3. Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
  4. Massachusetts General Hospital , Boston, Massachusetts ; Harvard Medical School , Boston, Massachusetts.
  5. Division of Infectious Diseases , Brigham and Women's Hospital , Boston, Massachusetts.
  6. Massachusetts General Hospital , Boston, Massachusetts.
  7. Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, New York.
  8. Harvard Medical School , Boston, Massachusetts ; Harvard School of Public Health.
  9. Harvard Medical School , Boston, Massachusetts ; Program in Medical and Population Genetics , Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT , Boston, Massachusetts ; Department of Medical Genetics and Department of Epidemiology , University Medical Center Utrecht , Utrecht , The Netherlands ; Divison of Genetics , Brigham and Women's Hospital , Boston, Massachusetts.

PMID: 25734091 PMCID: PMC4324186 DOI: 10.1093/ofid/ofu018

Abstract

OBJECTIVES: We conducted a genome-wide association study to explore whether common host genetic variants (>5% frequency) were associated with presence of virus able to use CXCR4 for entry.

METHODS: Phenotypic determination of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-1 coreceptor usage was performed on pretreatment plasma HIV-1 samples from treatment-naive participants in AIDS Clinical Trials Group A5095, a study of initial antiretroviral regimens. Associations between genome-wide single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), CCR5 Δ32 genotype, and human leukocyte antigen (HLA) class I alleles and viral coreceptor usage were explored.

RESULTS: Viral phenotypes were obtained from 593 patients with available genome-wide SNP data. Forty-four percent of subjects had virus capable of using CXCR4 for entry as determined by phenotyping. Overall, no associations, including those between polymorphisms in genes encoding viral coreceptors and their promoter regions or in HLA genes previously associated with HIV-1 disease progression, passed the statistical threshold for genome-wide significance (P < 5.0 × 10(-8)) in any comparison. However, the presence of viruses able to use CXCR4 for entry was marginally associated with the CCR5 Δ32 genotype in the nongenome-wide analysis.

CONCLUSIONS: No human genetic variants were significantly associated with virus able to use CXCR4 for entry at the genome-wide level. Although the sample size had limited power to definitively exclude genetic associations, these results suggest that host genetic factors, including those that influence coreceptor expression or the immune pressures leading to viral envelope diversity, are either rare or have only modest effects in determining HIV-1 coreceptor usage.

Keywords: CCR5 Δ32 mutation; HIV-1; genome-wide association study; viral coreceptor usage; viral tropism

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