HIV cell receptor attachment on CCR5 between African and European classes.Who has a highest risk of infection rate and why?

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Just need to know physiology of a cell of these races

Dear Africans are at greater risk because they have the CCR5 unlike the Europeans who are deficient of the factor giving them selective protective advantage over HIV infection.

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