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

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Nexø, Bjorn A ^a   Christensen, Tove ^a   Frederiksen, Jette ^b   Møller Larsen, Anné ^a   Oturai, Annette B ^c   Villesen, Palle ^a   Hansen, Bettina ^a   Nissen, Kari K ^a   Laska, Magdalena J ^a,d   Petersen, Trine S ^a   Bonnesen, Sandra ^a   Hedemand, Anne ^a   Wu, Tingting ^e   Wang, Xinjie ^e   Zhang, Xiuqing ^e   Brudek, Tomasz ^a   Maric, Romana ^a   Søndergaard, Helle B ^c   Sellebjerg, Finn ^c   Brusgaard, Klaus ^f   Kjeldbjerg, Anders L ^a   Rasmussen, Henrik B ^g   Nielsen, Anders L ^a   Nyegaard, Mette ^a   Petersen, Thor ^d   Børglum, Anders D ^a   Pedersen, Finn S ^a   more..

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b GLOSTRUP UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^c Mental Health Services CPH   (Denmark)

^d AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^e BGI SHENZHEN   (China)

^f ODENSE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^g Region Hovedstadens Psykiatri   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FC1 PROTEIN; TRIPARTITE MOTIF PROTEIN 5; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRUS PROTEIN; VIRUS DNA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUS; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; VIRUS GENE; ALLELE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COHORT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; HETEROZYGOTE; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; RISK; VIROLOGY;

HUMAN ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUS; HUMAN ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUSES;

ALLELES; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COHORT STUDIES; DNA, VIRAL; ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUSES; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMANS; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MALE; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; ODDS RATIO; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE;

EID: 79551626468     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0016652     Document Type: Article

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