The chromosomal organization of the human endogenous retrovirus-like sequence HERV-H: Clustering of the HERV-H sequences in a 300-kb region close to the GRPR locus on the X chromosome

DNA Research

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 425-429

  Shiraishi, Masahiko ^a   Alitalo, Tiina ^b   Sekiya, Takao ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER CENTER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Cosmid clones; DNA sequencing; Repetitive sequence; Southern hybridization

Indexed keywords

VIRUS DNA;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME MAP; COSMID; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE LIBRARY; GENETICS; HUMAN; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; RETROVIRUS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; X CHROMOSOME; YEAST ARTIFICIAL CHROMOSOME;

BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, ARTIFICIAL, YEAST; COSMIDS; DNA, VIRAL; GENOMIC LIBRARY; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RETROVIRIDAE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; X CHROMOSOME;

EID: 0030608409     PISSN: 13402838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/dnares/3.6.425     Document Type: Article

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