A long terminal repeat of the human endogenous retrovirus ERV-9 is located in the 5' boundary area of the human β-globin locus control region

Genomics

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 542-555

  Long, Qiaoming ^a   Bengra, Chikh ^a   Li, Chunhua ^a   Kutlar, Ferdane ^a   Tuan, Dorothy ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA GLOBIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; ENHANCER REGION; ERYTHROID CELL; EVOLUTION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GORILLA; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LONG TERMINAL REPEAT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REGULATOR GENE; RETROPOSON; RETROVIRUS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TANDEM REPEAT;

ANIMALIA; HUMAN ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUS ERV-9; HUMAN ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUSES; PRIMATES; UNIDENTIFIED RETROVIRUS;

EID: 0032535356     PISSN: 08887543     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/geno.1998.5608     Document Type: Article

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