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Quantitative analyses of messenger RNA of human endogenous retrovirus in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus.

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2001

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Hitoshi Ogasawara, Toshio Naito, Hiroshi Kaneko, Takashi Hishikawa, Iwao Sekigawa, Hiroshi Hashimoto, Yudai Kaneko, Naoki Yamamoto, Naoki Maruyama
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Abstract

These phenomena may be related to the production of viral components derived from HERV clone 4-1 and contribute to the pathogenesis of SLE; studies using a larger number of patients are required to confirm these points.