A biobank collection of carotid plaque samples taken from patients undergoing endarterectomy operations. Samples from carotid plaques and peripheral blood mononuclear cells in a setup with clinical registry data collection. See PMID 22371308 for further details.
Over the past 5–7 million years, humans and chimpanzees have diverged in brain size, structural complexity, and cognitive abilities despite high conservation of protein-coding genes. Notably, the endogenization and proliferation of retroviral infections within host genomes has introduced numerous sp...
