Human endogenous retrovirus-K HML-2 integration within RASGRF2 is associated with intravenous drug abuse and modulates transcription in a cell-line model

Timokratis Karamitros, Tara Hurst, Emanuele Marchi, Eirini Karamichali, Urania Georgopoulou, Andreas Mentis, Joey Riepsaame, Audrey Lin, Dimitrios Paraskevis, Angelos Hatzakis, John McLauchlan, Aris Katzourakis*, Gkikas Magiorkinis

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    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)10343-10439
    Number of pages97
    JournalProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
    Volume115
    Issue number41
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished (VoR) - 9 Oct 2018

    Funding

    ACKNOWLEDGMENTS. We thank Paul Klenerman for critical reading of the manuscript. We wish to acknowledge the role of the HCV Research UK Biobank (Award C0365) in collecting and making available samples and data for this publication. The study has been supported by Medical Research Council UK (Project MR/K010565/1). J.M. was supported by an MRC Award (MC_UU_12014/1). A.K. was funded by the Royal Society. We thank Paul Klenerman for critical reading of the manuscript. We wish to acknowledge the role of the HCV Research UK Biobank (Award C0365) in collecting and making available samples and data for this publication. The study has been supported by Medical Research Council UK (Project MR/K010565/1). J.M. was supported by an MRC Award (MC_UU_12014/1). A.K. was funded by the Royal Society.

    Keywords

    • Addiction
    • Endogenous retrovirus
    • HERV-K HML-2
    • Persons who inject drugs
    • RASGRF2

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