Roche Release: Researchers Successfully Used the 454 Sequencing System for Sensitive Detection of HIV Tropism

BRANFORD, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--454 Life Sciences, a Roche company, announced today that a team of researchers from the BC Centre of Excellence in HIV/AIDS and the University of British Columbia, Canada have used the Genome Sequencer FLX system to monitor low frequency HIV variants from human samples in a recent study. The preliminarily results of the study were presented by Dr. Richard Harrigan, the Centre’s Director of Research Labs at the HIV DART 2008 conference in Puerto Rico in a presentation entitled “Quantification of HIV Tropism by Deep Sequencing Shows a Broad Distribution of X4 Variants in Clinical Samples Associated with Virological Outcome.”
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