Notes of Interest
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Various multiple sequence alignments of interest. These are in Word ".doc" format
There is growing evidence to suggest that some types of schizophrenia are the result of a retrovirus infection, i.e., a person can be infected by a schizophrenia-inducing retrovirus and come down with acute schizophrenia. Interestingly, this retrovirus seen likely to be causative of some types of schizophrenia is directly related to the retroviruses under study of the Special Virus Cancer Program between 1962-1978 in the United States of America.
Evidence demonstrating Schizophrenia-associated retrovirus (SZRV) is a type-D retrovirus and related to multiple sclerosis retrovirus (MSRV), various leukemia viruses, as well as HIV and HTLV. Multiple sequence alignment:
Evidence demonstrating schizophrenia-associated retrovirus (SZRV) is an auto-immune-causing retrovirus in the Type-D family of retroviruses, e.g., SRV-1 (simian retrovirus type 1), SRV-2 (simian retrovirus type 2), M7 (baboon endogenous retrovirus), SMRV-H (squirrel monkey retrovirus), HTLV (human T-cell leukemia virus) and distantly-related to HIV (human immunodeficiency virus):