More effective drugs lead to harder selective sweeps in the evolution of drug resistance in HIV-1

In the early days of HIV treatment, drug resistance occurred rapidly and predictably in all patients, but under modern treatments, resistance arises slowly, if at all. The probability of resistance should be controlled by the rate of generation of resistance mutations. If many adaptive mutations ari...

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Main Authors: Alison F Feder, Soo-Yon Rhee, Susan P Holmes, Robert W Shafer, Dmitri A Petrov, Pleuni S Pennings
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: eLife Sciences Publications Ltd 2016-02-01
Series:eLife
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Online Access:https://elifesciences.org/articles/10670