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Even the double deletion mutants α-α' and β-β', which presumably affect local folding and hence could be less deleterious overall, did not restore mobility.
Should this be the case, however, a duplication event would only very rarely achieve fixation [ 28, 29]; moreover, in the event that a duplication is slightly deleterious, it would be effectively prevented from achieving fixation [ 30].
We have shown that phenotypic hiding has substantial influence on the equilibrium frequencies of mutants in selection-mutation balance, and on the speed at which deleterious mutants are lost from the population.
The challenge of utilizing this technique for the creation of subunit vaccines for the human population will be to create T cell epitopes within a protein of interest that will not have deleterious effects on the activity or the stability of the protein of interest, and that would be effective across a number of HLA-DR haplotypes [ 39 ] .
Some provocative clues from this first analysis suggest that some as yet unidentified correlate of oral contraceptive use might be protective and that consuming two or more alcoholic drinks per day might be deleterious for women in this high-incidence population.