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Making a virtue of necessity: the pleiotropic role of human endogenous retroviruses in cancer

Making a virtue of necessity: the pleiotropic role of human endogenous retroviruses in cancer

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Making a virtue of necessity: the pleiotropic role of human endogenous retroviruses in cancer

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Making a virtue of necessity: the pleiotropic role of human endogenous retroviruses in cancer

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England: The Royal Society

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Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B. Biological sciences, 2017-10, Vol.372 (1732), p.20160277-20160277

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English

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England: The Royal Society

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Like all other mammals, humans harbour an astonishing number of endogenous retroviruses (ERVs), as well as other retroelements, embedded in their genome. These remnants of ancestral germline infection with distinct exogenous retroviruses display various degrees of open reading frame integrity and replication capability. Modern day exogenous retrovi...

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Making a virtue of necessity: the pleiotropic role of human endogenous retroviruses in cancer

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TN_cdi_proquest_journals_1983889553

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_journals_1983889553

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ISSN

0962-8436

E-ISSN

1471-2970

DOI

10.1098/rstb.2016.0277

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