PMID- 21532938 OWN - NLM STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE LR - 20211020 IS - 1946-6242 (Electronic) IS - 1946-6234 (Print) IS - 1946-6234 (Linking) VI - 2 IP - 50 DP - 2010 Sep TI - Response to Comment on "The Origins of Sexually Transmitted HIV Among Men Who Have Sex with Men". PG - 501r1 AB - In this investigation, we evaluated explanations for the unusual degree of genetic diversity in HIV populations within the sampled seminal cell and plasma compartments observed in our previous study. These analyses included clonal sequencing of HIV DNA in peripheral blood mononuclear cells, ultradeep sequencing of HIV RNA in blood plasma, human leukocyte antigen (HLA) haplotyping of previously used samples, and a BLAST screen against both a local and public repository of HIV-1 sequences, and the investigations to determine whether these observations were secondary to contamination or artifact were unsuccessful. As there are very few HIV sequences from seminal cell tissues and transmission pairs described in the literature, future studies that evaluate more transmission pairs with sampling from multiple anatomic compartments and at multiple time points will most likely be required to resolve this controversy. FAU - Smith, Davey AU - Smith D AD - University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA. FAU - Delport, Wayne AU - Delport W FAU - Butler, David AU - Butler D FAU - Little, Susan AU - Little S FAU - Richman, Douglas AU - Richman D FAU - Pond, Sergei Kosakovsky AU - Pond SK LA - eng GR - R01 AI057167/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/United States GR - R21 AI077304/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/United States GR - R01 AI047745/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/United States GR - UM1 AI069432/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/United States GR - U01 AI069432/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/United States GR - R56 AI047745/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/United States GR - R01 MH083552/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/United States GR - R24 AI106039/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/United States GR - P30 AI036214-18/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/United States GR - R21 AI047745/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/United States GR - R01 MH083552-04/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/United States GR - U01 AI043638/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/United States GR - R01 AI047745-09/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/United States GR - P01 AI074621-03S10002/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/United States GR - P30 MH062512/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/United States GR - R21 AI080353/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/United States GR - P30 AI036214/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/United States GR - R21 AI077304-02/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/United States GR - P01 AI074621/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/United States GR - U01 AI043638-09S4/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/United States PT - Journal Article PL - United States TA - Sci Transl Med JT - Science translational medicine JID - 101505086 PMC - PMC3083242 MID - NIHMS245016 EDAT- 2011/05/03 06:00 MHDA- 2011/05/03 06:01 PMCR- 2011/09/01 CRDT- 2011/05/03 06:00 PHST- 2011/05/03 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2011/05/03 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2011/05/03 06:01 [medline] PHST- 2011/09/01 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - 10.1126/scitranslmed.3001473 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Sci Transl Med. 2010 Sep;2(50):501r1. doi: 10.1126/scitranslmed.3001473.