CDC XMRV sequences Damage Contamination Hypothesis

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INTERNATIONAL ME ASSOCIATION

New CDC XMRV sequences

severely damage the

contamination hypothesis.

The sequences from a recent CDC

prostate cancer study have finally

appeared in the GenBank, some eight

weeks after publication in PLoS ONE.

A quick BLAST search reveals that these

sequences, together with the Lithuania

isolate S-162 (Accession number:

FR872816.1), severely damage the

contamination hypothesis due to the large

diversity shown by the HGRV variant

XMRV.