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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
Abstract excerpt
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 terminal repeats of ERV3. Using this approach we detected six single base pair variations and a drop-out of a...
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