The DNA Copy Number of Human Endogenous Retrovirus-W (MSRV-Type) Is Increased in Multiple Sclerosis Patients and Is Influenced by Gender and Disease Severity

Sex affects immunity

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Expression of HERV-Fc1, a Human Endogenous Retrovirus, Is Increased in Patients with Active Multiple Sclerosis

(2012) M. J. Laska et al.   JOURNAL OF VIROLOGY

Endogenous viruses: insights into viral evolution and impact on host biology

(2012) Cédric Feschotte et al.   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

Role of gender in multiple sclerosis: Clinical effects and potential molecular mechanisms

(2011) Judith M. Greer et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROIMMUNOLOGY

Age at onset as a determinant of presenting phenotype and initial relapse recovery in multiple sclerosis

(2011) M Cossburn et al.   Multiple Sclerosis Journal

Increasing incidence of multiple sclerosis in women in Northern Finland

(2010) O Krökki et al.   Multiple Sclerosis Journal

An N-terminally truncated envelope protein encoded by a human endogenous retrovirus W locus on chromosome Xq22.3

(2010) Christina Roebke et al.   Retrovirology

Unreliable Real-Time PCR Analysis of Human Endogenous Retrovirus-W (HERV-W) RNA Expression and DNA Copy Number in Multiple Sclerosis

(2009) Jeremy A. Garson et al.   AIDS RESEARCH AND HUMAN RETROVIRUSES

The Human Endogenous Retrovirus Link between Genes and Environment in Multiple Sclerosis and in Multifactorial Diseases Associating Neuroinflammation

(2009) Hervé Perron et al.   CLINICAL REVIEWS IN ALLERGY & IMMUNOLOGY

HHV-6A infection induces expression of HERV-K18-encoded superantigen

(2009) Albert K. Tai et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL VIROLOGY

Effects of interferon-beta therapy on innate and adaptive immune responses to the human endogenous retroviruses HERV-H and HERV-W, cytokine production, and the lectin complement activation pathway in multiple sclerosis

(2009) Thor Petersen et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROIMMUNOLOGY

European Charcot Foundation Lecture: The natural history of multiple sclerosis and gender

(2009) A.D. Sadovnick   JOURNAL OF THE NEUROLOGICAL SCIENCES

Endogenous retroviral genes, Herpesviruses and gender in Multiple Sclerosis

(2009) Hervé Perron et al.   JOURNAL OF THE NEUROLOGICAL SCIENCES

Novel reliable real-time PCR for differential detection of MSRVenv and syncytin-1 in RNA and DNA from patients with multiple sclerosis

(2009) Giuseppe Mameli et al.   JOURNAL OF VIROLOGICAL METHODS

Parent-of-origin effect in multiple sclerosis: Observations from interracial matings

(2009) S. V. Ramagopalan et al.   NEUROLOGY

Analysis of transcribed human endogenous retrovirus W env loci clarifies the origin of multiple sclerosis-associated retrovirus env sequences

(2009) Georg Laufer et al.   Retrovirology

B cells and monocytes from patients with active multiple sclerosis exhibit increased surface expression of both HERV-H Env and HERV-W Env, accompanied by increased seroreactivity

(2009) Tomasz Brudek et al.   Retrovirology

A Microhomology-Mediated Break-Induced Replication Model for the Origin of Human Copy Number Variation

(2009) P. J. Hastings et al.   PLoS Genetics

Is autoimmunity a matter of sex?

(2008) Ana Lleo et al.   AUTOIMMUNITY REVIEWS

Inhibition of multiple sclerosis–associated retrovirus as biomarker of interferon therapy

(2008) Giuseppe Mameli et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROVIROLOGY

Human endogenous retrovirus-K18 Env as a risk factor in multiple sclerosis

(2008) AK Tai et al.   Multiple Sclerosis Journal

Parent-of-origin effects in MS: Observations from avuncular pairs

(2008) B. M. Herrera et al.   NEUROLOGY