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Possible association between multiple sclerosis and the human T cell leukemia virus (HTLV)-related endogenous element, HRES-1.
Multiple sclerosis (Houndmills, Basingstoke, England) - 1 Oct 1996
Rasmussen H B, Heltberg A, Christensen K, Clausen J
Abstract excerpt
In the present study we searched for an association between the human endogenous retroviral element HRES-1 and multiple sclerosis (MS). Fragments of this endogenous retrovirus were amplified for subsequent examination by single strand conformational analysis. We did not find HRES-1 markers exclusively linked with MS and only the two already known polymorphisms, which define three alleles of HRES-1, were detected....
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