Mapping HIV-1 Vaccine Induced T-Cell Responses: Bias towards Less-Conserved Regions and Potential Impact on Vaccine Efficacy in the Step Study

• Fusheng Li,

  Affiliation Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

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• Adam C. Finnefrock,

  Affiliation Vaccine Basic Research Department, Merck Research Laboratories, West Point, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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• Sheri A. Dubey,

  Affiliation Vaccine Basic Research Department, Merck Research Laboratories, West Point, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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• Bette T. M. Korber,

  Affiliations Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States of America, Los Alamos Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States of America

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• James Szinger,

  Affiliation Los Alamos Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States of America

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• Suzanne Cole,

  Affiliation Vaccine Basic Research Department, Merck Research Laboratories, West Point, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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• M. Juliana McElrath,

  Affiliations Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

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• John W. Shiver,

  Affiliation Vaccine Basic Research Department, Merck Research Laboratories, West Point, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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• Danilo R. Casimiro,

  Affiliation Vaccine Basic Research Department, Merck Research Laboratories, West Point, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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• Lawrence Corey,

  Affiliations Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Department of Laboratory Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

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• Steven G. Self

  * E-mail: sgs@scharp.org

  Affiliations Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

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