The etiology of multiple sclerosis: genetic evidence for the involvement of the human endogenous retrovirus HERV-Fc1.

We have investigated the role of human endogenous retroviruses in multiple sclerosis by analyzing the DNA of patients and controls in 4 cohorts for associations between multiple sclerosis and polymorphisms near viral restriction genes or near endogenous retroviral loci with one or more intact or alm...

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Main Authors: Bjørn A Nexø, Tove Christensen, Jette Frederiksen, Anné Møller-Larsen, Annette B Oturai, Palle Villesen, Bettina Hansen, Kari K Nissen, Magdalena J Laska, Trine S Petersen, Sandra Bonnesen, Anne Hedemand, Tingting Wu, Xinjie Wang, Xiuqing Zhang, Tomasz Brudek, Romana Maric, Helle B Søndergaard, Finn Sellebjerg, Klaus Brusgaard, Anders L Kjeldbjerg, Henrik B Rasmussen, Anders L Nielsen, Mette Nyegaard, Thor Petersen, Anders D Børglum, Finn S Pedersen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-02-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/21311761/pdf/?tool=EBI