Human endogenous retroviruses as pathogenic factors in the development of schizophrenia

Frontiers in Psychiatry

Volumn 6, Issue JAN, 2016, Pages

  Slokar, Gorjan ^a   Hasler, Gregor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Gene environment interaction; HERV W; Human endogenous retrovirus; Infectious; Pathogenesis; Schizophrenia

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; PROTEOME; TRANSCRIPTOME; VIRUS ANTIBODY;

ANTIBODY DETECTION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUS; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HUMAN; MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; RNA ANALYSIS; SCHIZOPHRENIA;

EID: 84964659793     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16640640     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2015.00183     Document Type: Review

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