title: Host genetics of HIV acquisition and viral control.
abstract: Since the discovery of HIV as the cause of AIDS, numerous insights have been gained from studies of its natural history and epidemiology. It has become clear that there are substantial interindividual differences in the risk of HIV acquisition and course of disease. Meanwhile, the field of human genetics has undergone a series of rapid transitions that have fundamentally altered the approach to studying HIV host genetics. We aim to describe the field as it has transitioned from the era of candidate-gene studies and the era of genome-wide association studies (GWAS) to its current state in the infancy of comprehensive sequencing. In some ways the field has come full circle, having evolved from being driven almost exclusively by our knowledge of immunology, to a bias-free GWAS approach, to a point where our ability to catalogue human variation far outstrips our ability to biologically interpret it.
authors.affiliation: Center for Human Genome Variation, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina 27708, USA. patrick.shea@dm.duke.edu
authors.forename: Patrick R
authors.initials: PR
authors.lastname: Shea
authors.forename: Kevin V
authors.initials: KV
authors.lastname: Shianna
authors.forename: Mary
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Carrington
authors.forename: David B
authors.initials: DB
authors.lastname: Goldstein
mesh_terms: D020022:Genetic Predisposition to Disease; D055106:Genome-Wide Association Study / Q000379:methods*; D006678:HIV; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000235:genetics*; D006801:Humans