Article
Identification of JC virus variants in multiple tissues of pediatric and adult PML patients.
Journal of medical virology - 1 May 1999
Newman J T, Frisque R J
Abstract excerpt
The transcriptional control region (TCR) of JC virus (JCV), the causative agent of progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML), undergoes rearrangement during replication of the virus in its human host. The mechanism by which viral promoter/enhancer sequences are deleted and duplicated within the TCR of the archetype form of JCV is not understood, but it is hypothesized that the generation of JCV variants...
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