Chromosomal distribution and coding capacity of the human endogenous retrovirus HERV-W family

AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 731-740

  Voisset, Cécile ^a   Bouton, Olivier ^a   Bedin, Frédéric ^a   Duret, Laurent ^b   Mandrand, Bernard ^a   Mallet, François ^a   Paranhos Baccalà, Glaucia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLYCOPROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOMAL LOCALIZATION; CHROMOSOME 3; CHROMOSOME 6; CHROMOSOME 7; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE LOCATION; GENETIC CODE; HUMAN; HUMAN ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUS; HUMAN TISSUE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PLACENTA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROVIRUS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; VIRUS GENE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 3; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 6; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 7; ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUSES; ENDOPEPTIDASES; GENE PRODUCTS, ENV; GENES, ENV; GENES, GAG; GENES, VIRAL; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLACENTA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 0034690712     PISSN: 08892229     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/088922200308738     Document Type: Article

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