An alternative approach to medical genetics based on modern evolutionary biology. Part 3: HERVs in diseases

Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine

Volumn 102, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 415-424

  Ryan, Frank P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; AUTOIMMUNITY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; EVOLUTIONARY DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; HERPES VIRUS; HLA SYSTEM; HUMAN; INFLUENZA; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; MEDICAL GENETICS; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PANDEMIC; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PSORIASIS; RETROVIRUS; RETROVIRUS INFECTION; REVIEW; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SERTOLI CELL ONLY SYNDROME; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS STRAIN; Y CHROMOSOME;

AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 1; ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUSES; HUMANS; LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS, SYSTEMIC; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; VIRUS DISEASES;

EID: 70349685414     PISSN: 01410768     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/jrsm.2009.090221     Document Type: Review

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