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Enhanced Transcription of Human Endogenous Retroviruses and TRIM28 Downregulation in Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease
5 Oct 2024
Abstract excerpt
Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) includes patients affected by Crohn’s disease or ulcerative colitis. IBD is thought to be a chronic immune-mediated disease, but its origin remains elusive, and this limits new therapeutic approaches. Human endogenous retroviruses (HERVs) originate from ancestral infections and represent 8% of the human genome. HERVs are no longer infectious, but some retroviral sequences can be...
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