1. Heritability of the HIV-1 reservoir size and decay under long-term suppressive ART
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Laura N Walti, Susana Posada Céspedes, Enos Bernasconi, Pietro Vernazza, Chenjie Wan, Matthieu Perreau, Huldrych F. Günthard, François Blanquart, Nadine Bachmann, Sabine Yerly, Teja Turk, Jacques Fellay, Volker Roth, Thomas Klimkait, Manuel Battegay, Jasmina Bogojeska, Niko Beerenwinkel, Venelin Mitov, Karin J. Metzner, Kathrin Neumann, Matthias Cavassini, Jürg Böni, Alexandra Calmy, Roger D. Kouyos, University hospital of Zurich [Zurich], Centre interdisciplinaire de recherche en biologie (CIRB), Labex MemoLife, École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Ecole Superieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles de la Ville de Paris (ESPCI Paris), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Collège de France (CdF (institution))-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Collège de France (CdF (institution))-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), University of Zurich, Kouyos, Roger D, Kaiser, Laurent, Swiss HIV Cohort Study, Anagnostopoulos, A., Battegay, M., Bernasconi, E., Böni, J., Braun, D.L., Bucher, H.C., Calmy, A., Cavassini, M., Ciuffi, A., Dollenmaier, G., Egger, M., Elzi, L., Fehr, J., Fellay, J., Furrer, H., Fux, C.A., Günthard, H.F., Haerry, D., Hasse, B., Hirsch, H.H., Hoffmann, M., Hösli, I., Huber, M., Kahlert, C., Kaiser, L., Keiser, O., Klimkait, T., Kouyos, R.D., Kovari, H., Ledergerber, B., Martinetti, G., de Tejada, B.M., Marzolini, C., Metzner, K.J., Müller, N., Nicca, D., Paioni, P., Pantaleo, G., Perreau, M., Rauch, A., Rudin, C., Scherrer, A.U., Schmid, P., Speck, R., Stöckle, M., Tarr, P., Trkola, A., Vernazza, P., Wandeler, G., Weber, R., and Yerly, S.
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10028 Institute of Medical Virology ,CD4-Positive T-Lymphocytes ,Male ,0301 basic medicine ,Viral/genetics ,Time Factors ,Statistical methods ,Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) ,General Physics and Astronomy ,HIV Infections ,medicine.disease_cause ,Genome ,10234 Clinic for Infectious Diseases ,Cohort Studies ,Viral ,lcsh:Science ,ddc:616 ,Multidisciplinary ,virus diseases ,HIV-1/drug effects/genetics ,Viral Load ,3100 General Physics and Astronomy ,3. Good health ,Phylogenetics ,Anti-Retroviral Agents ,Cohort ,Anti-Retroviral Agents/pharmacology ,Female ,Adult ,Science ,030106 microbiology ,610 Medicine & health ,1600 General Chemistry ,Genome, Viral ,Biology ,Article ,General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology ,03 medical and health sciences ,CD4-Positive T-Lymphocytes/virology ,DNA, Viral/genetics ,HIV Infections/virology ,HIV-1/drug effects ,HIV-1/genetics ,Humans ,1300 General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology ,medicine ,ddc:613 ,[SDV.GEN.GPO]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Genetics/Populations and Evolution [q-bio.PE] ,DNA ,General Chemistry ,Heritability ,Term (time) ,030104 developmental biology ,Evolutionary biology ,DNA, Viral ,HIV-1 ,lcsh:Q - Abstract
The HIV-1 reservoir is the major hurdle to curing HIV-1. However, the impact of the viral genome on the HIV-1 reservoir, i.e. its heritability, remains unknown. We investigate the heritability of the HIV-1 reservoir size and its long-term decay by analyzing the distribution of those traits on viral phylogenies from both partial-pol and viral near full-length genome sequences. We use a unique nationwide cohort of 610 well-characterized HIV-1 subtype-B infected individuals on suppressive ART for a median of 5.4 years. We find that a moderate but significant fraction of the HIV-1 reservoir size 1.5 years after the initiation of ART is explained by genetic factors. At the same time, we find more tentative evidence for the heritability of the long-term HIV-1 reservoir decay. Our findings indicate that viral genetic factors contribute to the HIV-1 reservoir size and hence the infecting HIV-1 strain may affect individual patients’ hurdle towards a cure., The HIV reservoir is a major hurdle for a cure of HIV, but the factors determining its size and dynamics remain unclear. Here the authors show in a large cohort of 610 HIV-1 infected individuals, who are on suppressive ART for a median of 5.4 years, that viral genetic factors contribute substantially to the HIV-1 reservoir size.
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- 2020
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