A novel JC virus variant found in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea has a 21-base pair deletion in the agnoprotein gene

Journal of Human Virology

Volumn 2, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 350-358

  Jobes, David V ^a   Friedlaender, Jonathan S ^b   Mgone, Charles S ^c   Koki, George ^c   Alpers, Michael P ^c   Ryschkewitsch, Caroline F ^a   Stoner, Gerald L ^a,d  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE   (United States)

^b TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c PAPUA NEW GUINEA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Papua New Guinea)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Agnoprotein; Evolution; Human migration; JCV; Papua New Guinea

Indexed keywords

VIRUS DNA; VIRUS PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; DNA DETERMINATION; GENE DELETION; GENE MAPPING; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; JC VIRUS; MIGRATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; URINALYSIS; VIRUS CHARACTERIZATION; VIRUS STRAIN;

BASE SEQUENCE; CODON; DNA, VIRAL; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; JC VIRUS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PAPILLOMAVIRUS INFECTIONS; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, VIRAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE DELETION; TUMOR VIRUS INFECTIONS; VARIATION (GENETICS); VIRAL PROTEINS;

DNA VIRUSES; JC VIRUS;

EID: 0033511267     PISSN: 10909508     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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