Three allelic forms of the human endogenous retrovirus, ERV3, and their frequencies in multiple sclerosis patients and healthy individuals.

doi:10.3109/08916939608995334

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Three allelic forms of the human endogenous retrovirus, ERV3, and their frequencies in multiple sclerosis patients and healthy individuals.

Autoimmunity - 1 Jan 1996

Rasmussen H B, Heltberg A, Lisby G, Clausen J

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A possible association between the endogenous retrovirus, ERV3, and multiple sclerosis (MS) was examined. Samples of DNA from 74 MS patients and 159 healthy blood donors were subjected to enzymatic amplification followed by single strand conformational analysis to detect polymorphisms in the long...

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Alleles
Humans
Multiple Sclerosis
Polymerase Chain Reaction
Polymorphism, Single-Stranded Conformational
Retroviridae

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