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Carlson JM, Schaefer M, Monaco DC, Batorsky R, Claiborne DT, Prince J, Deymier MJ, Ende ZS, Klatt NR, DeZiel CE, Lin TH, Peng J, Seese AM, Shapiro R, Frater J, Ndung'u T, Tang J, Goepfert P, Gilmour J, Price MA, Kilembe W, Heckerman D, Goulder PJ, Allen TM, Allen S, Hunter E. 2014. HIV transmission. Selection bias at the heterosexual HIV-1 transmission bottleneck.Science. 345(6193):1254031. PMID: 25013080


Li X, Price MA, He D, Kamali A, Karita E, Lakhi S, Sanders EJ, Anzala O, Amornkul PN, Allen S, Hunter E, Kaslow RA, Gilmour J, Tang J; IAVI Africa HIV Prevention Partnership. 2014. Host genetics and viral load in primary HIV-1 infection: clear evidence for gene by sex interactions. Hum Genet. 133(9):1187-97. PMID: 24969460 PMCID: PMC4127002


Aissani B, Shrestha S, Wiener HW, Tang J, Kaslow RA, Wilson CM. 2014. Mitochondrial DNA variation and virologic and immunological HIV outcomes in African Americans. AIDS. 28(13):1871-8. PMID: 24932613


Merino AM, Dugast AS, Wilson CM, Goepfert PA, Alter G, Kaslow RA, Tang J. 2014. KIR2DS4 promotes HIV-1 pathogenesis: new evidence from analyses of immunogenetic data and natural killer cell function. PLoS One. 9(6):e99353. PMID: 24901871 PMCID: PMC4047121


Prentice HA, Price MA, Porter TR, Cormier E, Mugavero MJ, Kamali A, Karita E, Lakhi S, Sanders EJ, Anzala O, Amornkul PN, Allen S, Hunter E, Kaslow RA, Gilmour J, Tang J; IAVI Africa HIV Prevention Partnership. 2014. Dynamics of viremia in primary HIV-1 infection in Africans: insights from analyses of host and viral correlates. Virology. 449:254-62. PMID: 24418560 PMCID: PMC3931417


Porter TR, Li X, Stephensen CB, Mulligan K, Rutledge B, Flynn PM, Lujan-Zilbermann J, Hazra R, Wilson CM, Havens PL, Tang J; Adolescent MedicineTrials Network for HIV/AIDS Interventions (ATN) 063 study team. 2013. Genetic associations with 25-hydroxyvitamin D deficiency in HIV-1-infected youth: fine-mapping for the GC/DBP gene that encodes the vitamin D-binding protein. Front Genet. 4:234. PMID: 24294218 PMCID: PMC3827582


Sudenga SL, Wiener HW, Shendre A, Wilson CM, Tang J, Shrestha S. 2013. Variants in interleukin family of cytokines genes influence clearance of high risk HPV in HIV-1 coinfected African-American adolescents. Hum Immunol. 74(12):1696-700. PMID: 23973891 PMCID: PMC3842375


Falola MI, Wiener HW, Wineinger NE, Cutter GR, Kimberly RP, Edberg JC, Arnett DK, Kaslow RA, Tang J, Shrestha S. 2013. Genomic copy number variants: evidence for association with antibody response to anthrax vaccine adsorbed. PLoS One. 8(5):e64813. PMID: 23741398 PMCID: PMC3669407


Prentice HA, Porter TR, Price MA, Cormier E, He D, Farmer PK, Kamali A, Karita E, Lakhi S, Sanders EJ, Anzala O, Amornkul PN, Allen S, Hunter E, Kaslow RA, Gilmour J, Tang J; IAVI African HIV Research Network. 2013. HLA-B*57 versus HLA-B*81 in HIV-1 infection: slow and steady wins the race? J Virol. 87(7):4043-51. PMID: 23365442 PMCID: PMC3624227


Tang J, Bansal A. 2012. Protocol for analyzing human leukocyte antigen variants and sexually transmitted infections: from genotyping to immunoassays. Methods Mol Biol. 903:359-80. PMID: 22782832


Song W, He D, Brill I, Malhotra R, Mulenga J, Allen S, Hunter E, Tang J, Kaslow RA. 2011. Disparate associations of HLA class I markers with HIV-1 acquisition and control of viremia in an African population. PLoS One. 6(8):e23469. PMID: 21858133 PMCID: PMC3157381


Tang J, Cormier E, Gilmour J, Price MA, Prentice HA, Song W, Kamali A, Karita E, Lakhi S, Sanders EJ, Anzala O, Amornkul PN, Allen S, Hunter E, Kaslow RA; IAVI African HIV Research Network. 2011. Human leukocyte antigen variants B*44 and B*57 are consistently favorable during two distinct phases of primary HIV-1 infection in sub-Saharan Africans with several viral subtypes. J Virol. 85(17):8894-902. PMID: 21715491 PMCID: PMC3165830


Lazaryan A, Song W, Lobashevsky E, Tang J, Shrestha S, Zhang K, McNicholl JM, Gardner LI, Wilson CM, Klein RS, Rompalo A, Mayer K, Sobel J, Kaslow RA; HIV Epidemiology Research Study Group; Reaching for Excellence in Adolescent Care and Health Study Group. 2011. The influence of human leukocyte antigen class I alleles and their population frequencies on human immunodeficiency virus type 1 control among African Americans. Hum Immunol. 72(4):312-8. PMID: 21262311 PMCID: PMC3778654


Shrestha S, Wiener HW, Aissani B, Song W, Shendre A, Wilson CM, Kaslow RA, Tang J. 2010. Interleukin-10 (IL-10) pathway: genetic variants and outcomes of HIV-1 infection in African American adolescents. PLoS One. 5(10):e13384. PMID: 20976276


Tang J,
Malhotra R, Song W, Brill I, Hu L, Farmer PK, Mulenga J, Allen S, Hunter E, Kaslow RA. 2010. Human leukocyte antigens and HIV type 1 viral load in early and chronic infection: predominance of evolving relationships. PLoS One. 5(3):e9629. PMID: 20224785


Bansal A, Carlson J, Yan J, Akinsiku OT, Schaefer M, Sabbaj S, Bet A, Levy DN, Heath S, Tang J, Kaslow RA, Walker BD, Ndung'u T, Goulder PJ, Heckerman D, Hunter E, Goepfert PA. 2010. CD8 T cell response and evolutionary pressure to HIV-1 cryptic epitopes derived from antisense transcription. J Exp Med. 207(1):51-9. PMID: 20065064


Lazaryan A, Song W, Lobashevsky E, Tang J, Shrestha S, Zhang K, Gardner LI, McNicholl JM, Wilson CM, Klein RS, Rompalo A, Mayer K, Sobel J, Kaslow, RA. 2010. Human leukocyte antigen class I supertypes and HIV-1 control in African Americans. J Virol 84: 2610-7. PMID: 20032191


Tang J,
Malhotra R, Song W, Brill I, Hu L, Farmer PK, Mulenga J, Allen S, Hunter E and Kaslow RA. 2010. Human leukocyte antigens and HIV type 1 viral load during early and chronic infection: Predominance of evolving relationships. PLoS ONE 5(3): e9629. PMID: 20224785


Ding H, Wilson CM, Modjarrad K, McGwin G Jr, Tang J, Vermund SH. 2009. Predictors of suboptimal virologic response to highly active antiretroviral therapy among human immunodeficiency virus-infected adolescents: analyses of the reaching for excellence in adolescent care and health (REACH) project. Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 163(12):1100-5. PMID: 19996046


Shrestha S, Tang J, Kaslow RA. 2009. Gene copy number: learning to count past two. Nat Med. 15(10):1127-9. PMID: 19812568


Song W, Ruder A, Hu L, Li Y, Ni R, Shao W, Kaslow RA, Butler MA, and Tang J. 2009. Genetic epidemiology of glioblastoma multiforme: Confirmatory and new findings from analyses of human leukocyte antigen alleles and motifs. PLoS ONE 4(9): e7157. PMID: 19774073


Li Y, Ni R, Song W, Shao W, Shrestha S, Ahmad S, Cunningham CK, Flynn PM, Kapogiannis B, Wilson CM, and Tang J. 2009. Clear and independent associations of several HLA-DRB1 alleles with differential antibody responses to hepatitis B vaccination in youth. Hum Genet 126: 685-96. PMID: 19597844


Shrestha S, Aissani B, Song W, Wilson CM, Kaslow RA and Tang J. 2009. Host genetics and HIV-1 viral set-point in African Americans. AIDS 23: 673-7. PMID: 19276793


Crawford H, Lumm W, Leslie A, Schaeler M, Boreas D, Prado JG, Tang J, Farmer P, Ndung'u T, Lakhi S, Gillmour J, Goepfert P, Walker B, Kaslow R, Mulenga J, Allen S, Goulder PJR, Hunter E. 2009. Evolution of HLA-B*5703 HIV-1 escape mutations in HLA-B*5703 positive individuals and their transmission recipients. J Exp Med 206: 909-21. PMID: 19307327


Kawashima Y, Pfafferott K, Duda A, Matthews P, Addo M, Gatanaga H, Fujiwara M, Hachiya A, Koizumi H, Kuse N, Oka S, Brumme Z, Brumme C, Allen T, Brander C, Kaslow R, Tang J, Hunter E, Allen S, Mulenga J, Branch S, Roach T, John M, Mallal S, Heckerman D, Frater J, Prendergast A, Crawford H, Leslie A, Prado J, Pybus OG, Klenerman P, Ndung’u T, Phillips R, Harrigan PR, Walker BD, Takiguchi M, Goulder P. 2009. Adaptation of HIV-1 to human leukocyte antigen class I. Nature 458: 641-5. PMID: 19242411


Tang J,
Shao W, Yoo YJ, Brill I, Mulenga J, Allen S, Hunter E and Kaslow RA. 2008. Human leukocyte antigen class I genotypes in relation to heterosexual HIV type 1 transmission within discordant couples. J Immunol 181: 2626-35. PMID: 18684953


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Tang S, Rivers CA, Dorak MT, Penman-Aguilar A, Aldrovandi G, Allen S, Karita E, Musonda R, and Kaslow RA. 2006. Distinct and evolving HLA class I profiles in native Africans with high prevalence of HIV/AIDS. In Hansen J. (ed.), Immunobiology of the Human MHC: Proceedings of the 13th International Histocompatibility Workshop and Congress (May 18-22, 2002). Seattle: IHWG Press. Vl. II, pp. 402-7.


Shao W, Tang J, Song W, Wang C, Li Y, Wilson CM, and Kaslow RA. 2007. CCL3L1 and CCL4L1: Variable gene copy number in adolescents with and without human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) infection. Genes Immun 8: 224-31. PMID: 17330138


Lazaryan A, Lobashevsky E, Mulenga J, Karita E, Allen S, Tang J, and Kaslow RA. 2006. Human leukocyte antigen B58 supertype and human immunodeficiency virus type 1 infection in native Africans. J Virol 80: 6056-60. PMID: 16731944


Song W, Wilson CM, Allen S, Wang C, Li Y, Kaslow RA, and Tang J. 2006. Interleukin 18 and human immunodeficiency virus type 1 infection in adolescents and adults. Clin Exp Immunol 144: 117-24. PMID: 16542373