Endogenous retroviruses provide the primary polyadenylation signal for two new human genes (HHLA2 and HHLA3)

Genomics

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 255-263

  Mager, Dixie L ^a   Hunter, D Garvin ^a   Schertzer, Michael ^a   Freeman, J Douglas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN GENETICS; LONG TERMINAL REPEAT; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; POLYADENYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROVIRUS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ANIMALIA; HUMAN ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUS H; PAPIO HAMADRYAS; UNIDENTIFIED RETROVIRUS;

EID: 0033180333     PISSN: 08887543     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/geno.1999.5877     Document Type: Article

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