Are human endogenous retroviruses triggers of autoimmune diseases? Unveiling associations of three diseases and viral loci

Implication of Human Endogenous Retrovirus Envelope Proteins in Placental Functions

(2014) Adjimon Lokossou et al.   Viruses-Basel

Virus infection, antiviral immunity, and autoimmunity

(2013) Daniel R. Getts et al.   IMMUNOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Human-Specific HERV-K Insertion Causes Genomic Variations in the Human Genome

(2013) Wonseok Shin et al.   PLoS One

Restriction Genes for Retroviruses Influence the Risk of Multiple Sclerosis

(2013) Bjørn A. Nexø et al.   PLoS One

The Transmembrane Protein of the Human Endogenous Retrovirus - K (HERV-K) Modulates Cytokine Release and Gene Expression

(2013) Vladimir A. Morozov et al.   PLoS One

HERV-K(HML-2), the Best Preserved Family of HERVs: Endogenization, Expression, and Implications in Health and Disease

(2013) Oliver Hohn et al.   Frontiers in Oncology

Association of HLA-DRB1*1501 tagging rs3135388 gene polymorphism with multiple sclerosis

(2012) Yvonne Benešová et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROIMMUNOLOGY

A Human Endogenous Retrovirus K dUTPase Triggers a TH1, TH17 Cytokine Response: Does It Have a Role in Psoriasis?

(2011) Maria-Eugenia Ariza et al.   JOURNAL OF INVESTIGATIVE DERMATOLOGY

Why do RNA viruses recombine?

(2011) Etienne Simon-Loriere et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

The Etiology of Multiple Sclerosis: Genetic Evidence for the Involvement of the Human Endogenous Retrovirus HERV-Fc1

(2011) Bjørn A. Nexø et al.   PLoS One

Recombinant Origin of the Retrovirus XMRV

(2011) T. Paprotka et al.   SCIENCE

Recent insights in the epidemiology of autoimmune diseases: Improved prevalence estimates and understanding of clustering of diseases

(2009) Glinda S. Cooper et al.   JOURNAL OF AUTOIMMUNITY

Infections and autoimmunity: the multifaceted relationship

(2009) P. Sfriso et al.   JOURNAL OF LEUKOCYTE BIOLOGY

The immunogenetics of multiple sclerosis

(2008) Arne Svejgaard   IMMUNOGENETICS