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Co-option of retrotransposons promotes antibody diversification, 2026, Lauring et al.
Co-option of retrotransposons promotes antibody diversification Activation-induced cytidine deaminase (AID) accomplishes somatic hypermutation (SHM) of VH(D)JH genes in germinal center B cells for antibody diversification and affinity maturation. How AID specifically targets VH(D)JH remains...- SNT Gatchaman
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Roles for retrotransposon insertions in human disease- ME/CFS?
If there is a thread on this please move mods there is a current PhD funded looking into this type of genetic activity Identification of new classes of genetic susceptibility to ME (meresearch.org.uk) I didn't know what this was - from the ME research article "Retrotransposons are pieces of...- Amw66
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Reverse-transcribed SARS-CoV-2 RNA can integrate into the genome of cultured human cells '...' expressed in patient-derived tissues, 2021, Zhang et al
Abstract Prolonged detection of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) RNA and recurrence of PCR-positive tests have been widely reported in patients after recovery from COVID-19, but some of these patients do not appear to shed infectious virus. We investigated the...- Fernweh
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