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To qualitatively explore potential mechanisms that may confer heightened risk for HIV infection among survivors of sex trafficking in India.

Heritability is high (Ritvo et al. 1985), and genomewide association studies indicate linkage with regions on every chromosome, suggesting a large number of genes may confer heightened autism susceptibility (Spence et al. 1985; Ylisaukko-oja et al. 2006).

Perhaps more plausibly, pressures to retain certain PRNP haplotypes (actually the common ARQ haplotype that is found to confer heightened susceptibility to common scrapie isolates, versus resistance-associated ARR or AHQ haplotypes of PRNP) may reflect selective advantages acting at the time of birth or during early postnatal life [8].

Sheep PRNP alleles conferring heightened susceptibility to natural scrapie disease may improve postnatal survival [8], offering a parallel to the literature defining neuroprotective properties for PrPC, and perhaps explaining the paradox of their retention in commercial stocks.

Infection or vaccination confers heightened resistance to pathogen rechallenge because of quantitative and qualitative differences between naive and primary memory T cells.

Thus Tcf3 deletion confers heightened resistance to differentiation in serum but does not substitute fully for LIF.

Our results therefore do not support apprehensions that genetic testing confers heightened levels of genetic discrimination related to insurance.

This is supported by the discovery that VHL loss and the resulting HIF1a upregulation confers heightened sensitivity to the rapalog temsirolimus in RCC cells [ 31].

Several imaging genetic studies have also shown that variation of the 5-HTT gene confers heightened amygdala reactivity to threatening facial emotions [ 70– 72].

A mutation that confers lethality, he explained, may confer another advantage scientists have not pinned down.

Stone monuments may confer a sense of permanence.