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Human endogenous retroviruses and cancer

Human endogenous retroviruses (HERVs) are retroviruses that infected human genome millions of years ago and have persisted throughout human evolution. About 8% of our genome is composed of HERVs, most of which are nonfunctional because of epigenetic control or deactivating mutations. However, a corr...

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Autores principales: Gonzalez-Cao, María, Iduma, Paola, Karachaliou, Niki, Santarpia, Mariacarmela, Blanco, Julià, Rosell, Rafael
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: the Editorial Committee of Cancer Biology & Medicine 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5250606/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28154780
http://dx.doi.org/10.20892/j.issn.2095-3941.2016.0080