Quantitative analysis of human endogenous retrovirus-K transcripts in postmortem premotor cortex fails to confirm elevated expression of HERV-K RNA in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

Abstract Over the past two decades a number of studies have demonstrated activity of the retroviral enzyme reverse transcriptase in the serum of patients with sporadic amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Known human exogenous retroviruses such as HIV-1 have been eliminated as possible sources of th...

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Main Authors: Jeremy A. Garson, Louise Usher, Ammar Al-Chalabi, Jim Huggett, Edmund F. Day, Adele L. McCormick
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2019-03-01
Series:Acta Neuropathologica Communications
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40478-019-0698-2