Jérémie Becker, Philippe Pérot, Valérie Cheynet, Guy Oriol, Nathalie Mugnier, Marine Mommert, Olivier Tabone, Julien Textoris, Jean-Baptiste Veyrieras, François Mallet
BACKGROUND: Human endogenous retroviruses (HERVs) have received much attention for their implications in the etiology of many human diseases and their profound effect on evolution. Notably, recent studies have highlighted associations between HERVs expression and cancers (Yu et al., Int J Mol Med 32, 2013), autoimmunity (Balada et al., Int Rev Immunol 29:351-370, 2010) and neurological (Christensen, J Neuroimmune Pharmacol 5:326-335, 2010) conditions. Their repetitive nature makes their study particularly challenging, where expression studies have largely focused on individual loci (De Parseval et al...
April 8, 2017: BMC Genomics