Genetic Redundancy and Chemokines: CCR5 Δ32 HIV-Resistance Allele

Abdullahi Ibrahim Uba^1*, Sani S Usman², Musbahu M Sani³, Umar A Abdullahi⁴, Mustapha G Muhammad⁵ and Umar S Abdussalam⁶

¹Department of Bioinformatics and Genetics, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Kadir Has University, Istanbul, Turkey

²Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Irbid, Jordan

³Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Basic Medical Sciences, CoMAHP Federal University Dutse, Jigawa, Nigeria

⁴Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, Federal University Dutse, Jigawa, Nigeria

⁵Department of Science Laboratory Technology, Kano State Polytechnic, Kano, Nigeria

⁶Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Clinical Sciences, Bayero University Kano, Nigeria