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A whole genome association study of mother-to-child transmission of HIV in Malawi

Bonnie R Joubert1*, Ethan M Lange3,4,2, Nora Franceschini1, Victor Mwapasa5, Kari E North4,1, Steven R Meshnick1 and the NIAID Center for HIV/AIDS Vaccine Immunology

Author Affiliations

1 Department of Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA

2 Department of Genetics, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA

3 Department of Biostatistics, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA

4 Carolina Center for Genome Sciences, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA

5 College of Medicine, University of Malawi, Blantyre, Malawi

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Genome Medicine 2010, 2:17 doi:10.1186/gm138

Published: 1 March 2010

Additional files

Additional file 1:

A Word document giving effect estimates for top SNPs of interest, by mode of transmission. The data provided represent the genome-wide association analysis by mode of HIV transmission.

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Additional file 2:

A Word document giving effect estimates for SNPs near or within genes associated with HIV/AIDS. The data provided represent the genome-wide association analysis for specific regions that have previously demonstrated association with HIV/AIDS, described in the Introduction section.

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