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Re:Why Has Science Only Cured One Person of HIV? by nonbel on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @02:32PM (#16064238)
>"extremely rare delta 32 mutation...delta 32 mutation is extremely rare...limitations on delta 32 bone marrow donors"

What is your definition of "extremely rare"?

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Re:Why Has Science Only Cured One Person of HIV? by forthefuture on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @03:15PM (#16064629)
1% of people have the mutation[1]. 25 million people are registered to donate bone marrow internationally[2].

That statistically represents 250,000 total cures available worldwide for the 36.7 million HIV sufferers[3]. Not taking into account the other ailments bone marrow transfers cure.

[1] http://genetics.thetech.org/original_news/news13

[2] https://bethematch.org/news/news-releases/international-marr...

[3] https://www.hiv.gov/hiv-basics/overview/data-and-trends/glob...

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Re:Why Has Science Only Cured One Person of HIV? by Diggity on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @03:02PM (#16064520)
1% of Caucasian population

(http://genetics.thetech.org/original_news/news13)

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Re:Why Has Science Only Cured One Person of HIV? by asdfaefasdf on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @03:06PM (#16064549)
That's actually about 2x the population of the US with HIV. Relatively speaking, it's not that rare comparatively.
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Re:Why Has Science Only Cured One Person of HIV? by Diggity on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @03:17PM (#16064648)
If bone marrow donations for all caucasians were mandatory I would agree.
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Re:Why Has Science Only Cured One Person of HIV? by dm319 on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @06:52PM (#16066658)
You also need them to be an HLA match as well as being on the bone marrow transplant register.
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Re:Why Has Science Only Cured One Person of HIV? by adenadel on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @03:19PM (#16064665)
According to Wikipedia (without a citation)

"CCR5 Δ32 has an (heterozygote) allele frequency of 10% in Europe, and a homozygote frequency of 1%."

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