Most people who are infected with the HTLV-1 virus areasymptomatic carriers. One specific subtype of HTLV-I occurs onlyin a sub-population of the Japanese population and among the nativepeoples of the Andes mountain area of northern Chile. Theresearchers are looking for the presence of HTLV-1 DNA in the bonemarrow cells of well-preserved Andean mummies. The presence ofHTLV-1 DNA in the mummies, of the same subtype observed in Japan,would indicate that some of the first people to migrate to the NewWorld came from Japan.
You identified the type of genome possessed by HTLV-1 in yourprevious answer. Explain how/why HTLV-1DNA might be found in the bone marrow of themummies. Be thorough and specific in your response.
