Multiple human endogenous retrovirus (HERV-K) loci with gag open reading frames in the human genome

Cytogenetics and Cell Genetics

Volumn 78, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 1-5

  Mayer, J ^a,b   Meese, E ^b   Mueller Lantzsch, N ^a  

^a Inst F Mikrobiologie und Hygiene Abt Virologie Haus 47   (Germany)

^b SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAG PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME; GENE LOCUS; GERM CELL TUMOR; HUMAN; HYBRID; MEDICAL GENETICS; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROVIRUS; VIRUS DNA CELL DNA INTERACTION; VIRUS PARTICLE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DNA; GENES, GAG; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; HYBRID CELLS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; OPEN READING FRAMES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RETROVIRIDAE; RODENTIA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 0030773585     PISSN: 03010171     EISSN: 1424859X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000134614     Document Type: Article

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