Comprehensive analysis of human endogenous retrovirus group HERV-W locus transcription in multiple sclerosis brain lesions by high-throughput amplicon sequencing

Journal of Virology

Volumn 87, Issue 24, 2013, Pages 13837-13852

  Schmitt, Katja ^a   Richter, Christin ^a   Backes, Christina ^a   Meese, Eckart ^a   Ruprecht, Klemens ^b   Mayer, Jens ^a  

^a SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; SYNCYTIN 1 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRUS ENVELOPE PROTEIN; VIRUS PROTEIN;

AMPLICON; ARTICLE; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN TISSUE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUS; ERVWE1 GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LONG TERMINAL REPEAT; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REPORTER GENE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ADULT; AGED; BRAIN; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUSES; GENOME, HUMAN; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84888023264     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: 10985514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.02388-13     Document Type: Article

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