Human endogenous retroviruses and cancer
Human endogenous retroviruses (HERVs) are retroviruses that infected human genome millions of years ago and have persisted throughout human evolution. About 8% of our genome is composed of HERVs, most of which are nonfunctional because of epigenetic control or deactivating mutations. However, a corr...
Main Authors: | María Gonzalez-Cao, Paola Iduma, Niki Karachaliou, Mariacarmela Santarpia, Julià Blanco, Rafael Rosell |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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China Anti-Cancer Association
2016-12-01
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Series: | Cancer Biology & Medicine |
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Online Access: | http://www.cancerbiomed.org/index.php/cocr/article/view/995 |
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