The DNA Copy Number of Human Endogenous Retrovirus-W (MSRV-Type) Is Increased in Multiple Sclerosis Patients and Is Influenced by Gender and Disease Severity

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Garcia Montojo, Marta ^a   Dominguez Mozo, María ^a   Arias Leal, Ana ^a   Garcia Martinez, Ángel ^a   de las Heras, Virginia ^a   Casanova, Ignacio ^a   Faucard, Raphaël ^b   Gehin, Nadège ^b   Madeira, Alexandra ^b   Arroyo, Rafael ^a   Curtin, François ^b   Alvarez Lafuente, Roberto ^a   Perron, Hervé ^b  

^a HOSPITAL CLÍNICO SAN CARLOS   (Spain)

^b GENEURO SA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS ENVELOPE PROTEIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPY NUMBER VARIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DNA SEQUENCE; ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUS; ENVELOPE GENE; FEMALE; GENE PROBE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS ASSOCIATED RETROVIRUS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PERIPHERAL BLOOD MONONUCLEAR CELL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEX DIFFERENCE; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS LOAD;

ADULT; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, X; DNA COPY NUMBER VARIATIONS; DNA, VIRAL; ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUSES; FEMALE; GENES, ENV; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTES, MONONUCLEAR; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX FACTORS; VIRAL LOAD;

HUMAN ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUS W; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS ASSOCIATED RETROVIRUS; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS ASSOCIATED RETROVIRUS ELEMENT;

EID: 84872127980     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0053623     Document Type: Article

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