The human genome is composed of viral DNA: Viral homologues of the protein products cause Alzheimer's disease and others via autoimmune mechanisms.

Alzheimer's Disease: A Pathogenetic Autoimmune Disorder Caused by Herpes Simplex in a Gene-Dependent Manner

“…It is even relevant to human genetic diseases as the polyglutamine repeats observed in Huntington's disease and spinocerebellar ataxias align with very common viruses (the ubiquitous HHV-6) while the cystic fibrosis mutant aligns with pseudomonas and staphylococcal phages, whose bacterial hosts have been found to shorten the lifespan of these patients. The London mutation in Alzheimer's disease converts the surrounding peptide to a vatch that is homologous to proteins from the rhinoviruses that cause the common cold [ 26 , 27 , 32 , 33 ]. Every human protein so far screened by the author, without a single exception, displays this type of homology to particular but specific sets of virus for each protein.…”

Alzheimer's Disease: A Pathogenetic Autoimmune Disorder Caused by Herpes Simplex in a Gene-Dependent Manner

“…It is even relevant to human genetic diseases as the polyglutamine repeats observed in Huntington's disease and spinocerebellar ataxias align with very common viruses (the ubiquitous HHV-6) while the cystic fibrosis mutant aligns with pseudomonas and staphylococcal phages, whose bacterial hosts have been found to shorten the lifespan of these patients. The London mutation in Alzheimer's disease converts the surrounding peptide to a vatch that is homologous to proteins from the rhinoviruses that cause the common cold [ 26 , 27 , 32 , 33 ]. Every human protein so far screened by the author, without a single exception, displays this type of homology to particular but specific sets of virus for each protein.…”

Herpesvirus genome integration in whole‐genome sequences of dementia and control cohorts

“…Infectious agents, like viruses, have long been suspected of contributing to neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer's disease (AD) and related dementias 1,2 . In many of these disorders, viruses are thought to potentially contribute to the pathogenesis through a variety of mechanisms, including neuroinflammation, reactivation from viral latency, integration of genome sequences, and the direct seeding of proteins such as amyloid beta (Aβ) 3–11 . In particular, the interest in a possible association between neurotropic herpesviruses and progressive neurologic diseases that result in dementia continues to grow 1,2,12–19 …”

Alzheimer's Disease: A Pathogenetic Autoimmune Disorder Caused by Herpes Simplex in a Gene-Dependent Manner

“…It is even relevant to human genetic diseases as the polyglutamine repeats observed in Huntington's disease and spinocerebellar ataxias align with very common viruses (the ubiquitous HHV-6) while the cystic fibrosis mutant aligns with pseudomonas and staphylococcal phages, whose bacterial hosts have been found to shorten the lifespan of these patients. The London mutation in Alzheimer's disease converts the surrounding peptide to a vatch that is homologous to proteins from the rhinoviruses that cause the common cold [ 26 , 27 , 32 , 33 ]. Every human protein so far screened by the author, without a single exception, displays this type of homology to particular but specific sets of virus for each protein.…”

Herpesvirus genome integration in whole‐genome sequences of dementia and control cohorts

“…Infectious agents, like viruses, have long been suspected of contributing to neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer's disease (AD) and related dementias 1,2 . In many of these disorders, viruses are thought to potentially contribute to the pathogenesis through a variety of mechanisms, including neuroinflammation, reactivation from viral latency, integration of genome sequences, and the direct seeding of proteins such as amyloid beta (Aβ) 3–11 . In particular, the interest in a possible association between neurotropic herpesviruses and progressive neurologic diseases that result in dementia continues to grow 1,2,12–19 …”

Alzheimer's Disease: A Pathogenetic Autoimmune Disorder Caused by Herpes Simplex in a Gene-Dependent Manner

“…It is even relevant to human genetic diseases as the polyglutamine repeats observed in Huntington's disease and spinocerebellar ataxias align with very common viruses (the ubiquitous HHV-6) while the cystic fibrosis mutant aligns with pseudomonas and staphylococcal phages, whose bacterial hosts have been found to shorten the lifespan of these patients. The London mutation in Alzheimer's disease converts the surrounding peptide to a vatch that is homologous to proteins from the rhinoviruses that cause the common cold [ 26 , 27 , 32 , 33 ]. Every human protein so far screened by the author, without a single exception, displays this type of homology to particular but specific sets of virus for each protein.…”

Herpesvirus genome integration in whole‐genome sequences of dementia and control cohorts

“…Infectious agents, like viruses, have long been suspected of contributing to neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer's disease (AD) and related dementias 1,2 . In many of these disorders, viruses are thought to potentially contribute to the pathogenesis through a variety of mechanisms, including neuroinflammation, reactivation from viral latency, integration of genome sequences, and the direct seeding of proteins such as amyloid beta (Aβ) 3–11 . In particular, the interest in a possible association between neurotropic herpesviruses and progressive neurologic diseases that result in dementia continues to grow 1,2,12–19 …”