Indians more prone to HIV/AIDS

by India Voice    April 25, 2008

The biggest ever gene mapping exercise of the Indian people has shown that Indians are more vulnerable to HIV/AIDS than many other population groups around the world.This is because a protective gene marker against HIV-1 is virtually absent in India making the population more at risk.

The study also shows that the risk increases as one moves from north to south India.It also says that Indian gene pool is quite varied and the term or description Indian is hardly homogenous.It includes several variations across population groups spread across the country's land mass.

The study a part of the Indian Genome Variation Initiative has generated information on over 4,000 genetic markers from more than 1,000 biomedically important and pharmacogenetically relevant genes in reference groups.The mapping is expected to help in constructing specific drug response/disease predisposition maps to aid policy decision making for drug dosage interventions and disease risk management especially for complex and infectious diseases.

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