Widespread and tissue-specific expression of endogenous retroelements in human somatic tissues.

Publication — IRIC

Endogenous retroelements (EREs) constitute about 42% of the human genome and have been implicated in common human diseases such as autoimmunity and cancer. The dominant paradigm holds that EREs are expressed in embryonic stem cells (ESCs) and germline cells but are repressed in differentiated somatic cells. Despite evidence that some EREs can be expressed at the RNA and protein levels in specific contexts, a system-level evaluation of their expression in human tissues is lacking.

Date de publication: 28 avril 2020
Chercheur(euse)s: Larouche JD, Trofimov A, Hesnard L, Ehx G, Zhao Q, Vincent K, Durette C, Gendron P, Laverdure JP, Bonneil E, Côté C, Lemieux S, Thibault P, Perreault C
Référence PubMed: Genome Med 2020;12(1):40
ID PubMed: 32345368
Affiliation: Institute of Research in Immunology and Cancer, Université de Montréal, P.O. Box 6128, Downtown Station, Montréal, QC, H3C 3J7, Canada.