Identification and phylogeny of novel human endogenous retroviral sequences belonging to the HERV-W family on the human X chromosome

Archives of Virology

Volumn 144, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 2403-2413

  Kim, H S ^a   Crow, T J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLONE; HUMAN CHROMOSOME; HUMAN ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUS; HYBRID CELL; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; OPEN READING FRAME; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SOMATIC CELL; VIRUS GENOME; X CHROMOSOME;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CLONING, MOLECULAR; ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUSES; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, POL; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SELECTION (GENETICS); SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; X CHROMOSOME;

EID: 0033382813     PISSN: 03048608     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s007050050653     Document Type: Article

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