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The hypothesis of the study was that early treatment of acute HIV-1 infection would confer immunologic maturation and subsequent control of HIV-1 without the need for ongoing drug therapy.
In a multiethnic cohort, while breast cancer risk was not significantly increased for women with the A2 allele [ 1 ] , the A2 allele did confer more than a twofold increase in risk among those with advanced disease.
Eukaryotes have maintained their introns because they confer the capacity to create evolutionary novelty through exon shuffling [ 2 ] . The introns-early theory predicts that at least some of the extant eukaryotic introns are direct descendants of the primordial sequences in the LUCA [ 2 3 4 5 ] . The alternate view, "introns-late", suggests that the last common ancestor was intron-free and that spliceosomal introns have originated in eukaryotes from recent invasions by autocatalytic RNAs (e.g.
TGF-β1 is clearly a potent cytokine, able to confer multiple effects when expressed intra-articularly in vivo .
Population genetics tells us that for new alleles, fixation is a rare event, even for new mutations that confer an immediate selective advantage.