Are human endogenous retroviruses triggers of autoimmune diseases? Unveiling associations of three diseases and viral loci

Immunologic Research

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 55-63

  Nexø, Bjørn A ^a   Villesen, Palle ^a   Nissen, Kari K ^a   Lindegaard, Hanne M ^b   Rossing, Peter ^a,c,d   Petersen, Thor ^e   Tarnow, Lise ^a,c,f   Hansen, Bettina ^a   Lorenzen, Tove ^g   Hørslev Petersen, Kim ^h   Jensen, Sara B ^a   Bahrami, Shervin ^a   Lajer, Maria ^c   Schmidt, Kathrine L M ^a   Parving, Hans Henrik ⁱ   Junker, Peter ^b   Laska, Magdalena J ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b ODENSE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^c STENO DIABETES CENTER   (Denmark)

^d University of Copenhagen   (Denmark)

^e AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^f HILLERØD HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^g LILLEBAELT HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^h King Christian the Xth Hospital   (Denmark)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Multiple sclerosis; Rheumatoid arthritis; Single nucleotide polymorphisms; Synergy; Type 1 diabetes mellitus

Indexed keywords

LYMPHOCYTE ANTIGEN; GENETIC MARKER; VIRAL PROTEIN;

ANTIGEN DETECTION; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC RISK; GENOME ANALYSIS; HUMAN; INNATE IMMUNITY; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROVIRIDAE; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STOP CODON; VIRUS GENE; VIRUS PARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNITY; ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUS; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; VIROLOGY;

ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; AUTOIMMUNITY; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 1; ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUSES; FEMALE; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDIES; GENETIC LOCI; GENETIC MARKERS; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, INNATE; MALE; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; VIRAL PROTEINS;

EID: 84955645772     PISSN: 0257277X     EISSN: 15590755     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12026-015-8671-z     Document Type: Article

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