@Carico,
Carico;66918 wrote:First of all, finding a gene or a cell that can arrest a virus doesn't mean that that gene mutated. No one can know if a gene mutated unless someone saw it doing.so. So if some genes are present inside one human and not another, that in no way proves that that's the same gene that mutated from another gene.
You again show your lack of knowledge.
CCR5delta32 isn't a gene. CCR5 is a gene. CCR5delta32 is the CCR5 gene with a hunk missing, hence
delta (definition: deleted) 32 (length of deletion). It is a mutation of the CCR5 gene.
The hunk in particular is responsible for producing receptors on T-cells. Without this, the T-cells in your body (imagine this) don't have those particular receptors. HIV requires these to bind to the cell. It doesn't "arrest" a virus... it in no way attacks the virus. The virus simply cannot bind to the mutated cells.
We tested this recently. It removed an HIV infection from the patient.
You missed again. We have pinpointed the mutation, what it does, how to use it and where it came from.
This is evolutionary biology.