Genes that Allow the Control of AIDS Without Meds Identified by Researchers

A group of researchers managed to identify the genetic profile of a group of HIV patients who control the infection without medication more effectively, which could be the key to the natural control of AIDS.

The researchers, who presented his discovery at the International Congress of Retrovirology (CROI) in Boston, is led by Ragon Institute of Massachusetts General Hospital and was attended by specialists from IrsiCaixa Javier Martinez-Picado and María José inbox.

The researchers were able to sequence 30,000 genes in 35 people to examine for the first time the genetic causes that allow some HIV-infected can control the infection naturally, without medication, and do not develop AIDS.

From here, they could identify a group of people who have called "the elite of the elite" who do not need to activate your immune system to control the infection.

According to researchers who have participated in the study, published in the March issue of the Journal of Virology, this finding may serve short-term to assess the readiness of HIV patients develop complications associated with HIV to reduce their hope of life, such as cardiovascular risk, metabolic abnormalities, nerve and liver problems, kidney and bone.

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