Trial reportJournal of virology2017
Inherited Chromosomally Integrated Human Herpesvirus 6 Genomes Are Ancient, Intact, and Potentially Able To Reactivate from Telomeres.
Trial report in Journal of virology, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 27 papers.
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27 citing papers in PubMed, 52 citations in OpenAlex.
- Tracing 2500 years of human betaherpesvirus 6A and 6B diversity through ancient DNA.Science advances · 2026Article
- Inherited chromosomally integrated human herpesvirus 6: regional variation in prevalence, association with angina, and identification of ancestral viral lineages in two large UK studies.Journal of virology · 2025Article
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- Human herpesvirus type 6 reactivation after haploidentical hematopoietic cell transplantation with post-transplant cyclophosphamide and antithymocyte globulin: risk factors and clinical impact.Clinical hematology international · 2024Article
- Inherited Chromosomally Integrated Human Herpesvirus 6: Laboratory and Clinical Features.Microorganisms · 2023Article
- The Telomeric Repeats of HHV-6A Do Not Determine the Chromosome into Which the Virus Is Integrated.Genes · 2023Article
- Transmission dynamics of human herpesvirus 6A, 6B and 7 from whole genome sequences of families.Virology journal · 2022Article
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- Virus-derived variation in diverse human genomes.PLoS genetics · 2021Article
- Evolutionary History of Endogenous Human Herpesvirus 6 Reflects Human Migration out of Africa.Molecular biology and evolution · 2021Article
- Cumulative Roles for Epstein-Barr Virus, Human Endogenous Retroviruses, and Human Herpes Virus-6 in Driving an Inflammatory Cascade Underlying MS Pathogenesis.Frontiers in immunology · 2021Article
- Human Herpesviruses 6A and 6B in Brain Diseases: Association versus Causation.Clinical microbiology reviews · 2020Review
- The U94 Gene of Human Herpesvirus 6: A Narrative Review of Its Role and Potential Functions.Cells · 2020Review
- Endogenization and excision of human herpesvirus 6 in human genomes.PLoS genetics · 2020Article
- Fetal inheritance of chromosomally integrated human herpesvirus 6 predisposes the mother to pre-eclampsia.Nature microbiology · 2020Article
- The Promyelocytic Leukemia Protein facilitates human herpesvirus 6B chromosomal integration, immediate-early 1 protein multiSUMOylation and its localization at telomeres.PLoS pathogens · 2020Article
- Pathogen or Bystander: Clinical Significance of Detecting Human Herpesvirus 6 in Pediatric Cerebrospinal Fluid.Journal of clinical microbiology · 2020Article
- Evolutionary analysis of exogenous and integrated HHV-6A/HHV-6B populations.Virus evolution · 2020Article
- Human Herpesvirus Sequencing in the Genomic Era: The Growing Ranks of the Herpetic Legion.Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2019Review
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Abstract
The genomes of human herpesvirus 6A (HHV-6A) and HHV-6B have the capacity to integrate into telomeres, the essential capping structures of chromosomes that play roles in cancer and ageing. About 1% of people worldwide are carriers of chromosomally integrated HHV-6 (ciHHV-6), which is inherited as a genetic trait. Understanding the consequences of integration for the evolution of the viral genome, for the telomere, and for the risk of disease associated with carrier status is hampered by a lack of knowledge about ciHHV-6 genomes. Here, we report an analysis of 28 ciHHV-6 genomes and show that they are significantly divergent from the few modern nonintegrated HHV-6 strains for which complete sequences are currently available. In addition, ciHHV-6B genomes in Europeans are more closely related to each other than to ciHHV-6B genomes from China and Pakistan, suggesting regional variation of the trait. Remarkably, at least one group of European ciHHV-6B carriers has inherited the same ciHHV-6B genome, integrated in the same telomere allele, from a common ancestor estimated to have existed 24,500 ± 10,600 years ago. Despite the antiquity of some, and possibly most, germ line HHV-6 integrations, the majority of ciHHV-6B (95%) and ciHHV-6A (72%) genomes contain a full set of intact viral genes and therefore appear to have the capacity for viral gene expression and full reactivation.
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