. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Sep 1.

Published in final edited form as: J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr. 2010 Sep 1;55(1):14–28. doi: 10.1097/QAI.0b013e3181e696ca

Table 2.

Human and rhesus macaque IFN-α subtype comparison

Human IFN-α Subtype		Rhesus Macaque
Gene	GenBank No.	Gene	GenBank No.	Identity w. Human nt Sequence	Identity w. Human aa Sequence
IFN-α1	NM024013	IFN-α1/13	XM001099165	96%	95%
		IFN-α13	XM001117329	97%
		IFN-α13	XM001082177	97%
IFN-α13	NM006900	IFN-α13	XM001117329	97%
		IFN-α13	XM001082177	97%
		IFN-α1/13	XM001099165	97%	95%
IFN-α2	NM000605	IFN-α2	XM001107516	94%	92%
IFN-α4	NM021068	IFN-α2	XM001107635	93%	90%
IFN-α5^*	NM002169	IFN-α6	XM001099374	91%
IFN-α6	NM021002	IFN-α6	XM001099374	97%	95%
IFN-α7^*	NM021057	IFN-α4	XM001107635	92%
IFN-α8	NM002170	IFN-α8	XM001107458	95%	89%
IFN-α10^*	NM002171	IFN-α4	XM001107635	92%
IFN-α14	BC104159	IFN-α14	XM001107576	95%	90%
IFN-α16^*	NM002173	IFN-α4	XM001107635	93%
IFN-α17	NM021268	IFN-α17	XM001107999	92%	91%
		IFN-α4	XM001107635	93%
IFN-α21	NM002175	IFN-α21	XM001108051	91%	89%

Blast search of the human against the rhesus sequences did not yield a predicted rhesus sequence of the same, but instead a related IFN-α subtype gene