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SUBMITTER: Kury P
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7185488 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Küry Patrick P Nath Avindra A Créange Alain A Dolei Antonina A Marche Patrice P Gold Julian J Giovannoni Gavin G Hartung Hans-Peter HP Perron Hervé H
Trends in molecular medicine 20180315 4
The causes of multiple sclerosis and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis have long remained elusive. A new category of pathogenic components, normally dormant within human genomes, has been identified: human endogenous retroviruses (HERVs). These represent ∼8% of the human genome, and environmental factors have reproducibly been shown to trigger their expression. The resulting production of envelope (Env) proteins from HERV-W and HERV-K appears to engage pathophysiological pathways leading to the path ...[more]