A small group of people who are resistant to infection by HIV appear to have this resistance because they are homozygous for a non-functional variant of a specific immune-system protein. How does this prevent HIV from infecting them?

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A small group of people who are resistant to infection by HIV appear to have this resistance because they are homozygous for a non-functional variant of a specific immune-system protein. How does this prevent HIV from infecting them?