Many human L1 elements are capable of retrotransposition

Nature Genetics

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 37-43

  Sassaman, Donna M ^a   Dombroski, Beth A ^b   Moran, John V ^c   Kimberland, Michelle L ^a   Naas, Thierry P ^b   DeBerardinis, Ralph J ^c   Gabriel, Abram ^a   Swergold, Gary D ^b   Kazazian Jr , Haig H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CENTER FOR DRUG EVALUATION AND RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE ISOLATION; GENE LOCATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROPOSON; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0030903621     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng0597-37     Document Type: Article

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