Friends-Enemies: Endogenous Retroviruses Are Major Transcriptional Regulators of Human DNA
Endogenous retroviruses are mobile genetic elements hardly distinguishable from infectious, or “exogenous,” retroviruses at the time of insertion in the host DNA. Human endogenous retroviruses (HERVs) are not rare. They gave rise to multiple families of closely related mobile elements that occupy ~8...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2017-06-01
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| Series: | Frontiers in Chemistry |
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| Online Access: | http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fchem.2017.00035/full |