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Study participants completed a detailed neuropsychological assessment that has been used in other international studies [Heaton et al., 2010b], is similar to the battery used in large multisite studies in the United States [Heaton et al., 2010a], and AG-014699 mouse was validated in a Marathi-speaking sample in Pune using population-specific norms corrected for the effects of age, education, and sex [Kamat et al., 2012]. Due to the lack of established norms for persons with three years or less of formal education, these participants were excluded from the analyses. Global deficit scores (GDS) were calculated as described previously as a measurement of neuropsychological test performance [Carey et al., 2004; Heaton et al., 2004]. Participants with GDS performed using a single step continuous reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR, one-step PCR) method followed by nested PCR amplification of HIV-1 tat exon 1 and the C2V3 region of HIV-1 env that has been described elsewhere [Mullick et al., 2006]. The final PCR products were purified using the QIAquick? PCR Purification kit (Qiagen). Population based www.selleckchem.com/products/ldk378.html sequencing of the purified products was done using BigDye? Terminator v3.1 Cycle Sequencing Kit (Applied Biosystems, Foster City, CA) on an ABI 3730xl DNA Analyzer. Sequences were edited and aligned initially by Clustal W [Thompson et al., 1994]. The alignments were edited manually in Bioedit, version 7.05 to preserve frame insertions and deletions if present [Hall, 1999]. Sequences were examined for inter-subtype recombination using the Recombinant Identification Program (RIP) 3.0 on the Los Alamos National Laboratory Quetiapine (LANL) HIV Sequence Database website (http://www.hiv.lanl.gov/content/sequence/HIV/HIVTools.html), and were screened for contamination using the DNA Distance Matrix function in Bioedit. Sequences with an evolutionary distance of 0 to 2 or more other sequences were considered as possibly contaminated. After exclusion of non-C HIV-1 subtypes, subjects on ART at the time of sequencing, and contaminated sequences, HIV-1 tat and env sequences were grouped according to the presence or absence of neurocognitive impairment based on GDS. Sequences were evaluated for signature residues using the Viral Epidemiology Signature Pattern Analysis program (VESPA) available through LANL [Korber and Myers, 1992]. Positive and negative selection was assessed using single-likelihood ancestor counting (SLAC) [Pond, 2005], which was implemented on the web-based Datamonkey (http://www.datamonkey.