Naturally occurring hepatitis B virus genomes bearing the hallmarks of retroviral G → A hypermutation

Virology

Volumn 235, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 104-108

  Günther, Stephan ^a   Sommer, Gunhild ^a   Plikat, Uwe ^b   Iwanska, Alicja ^a   Wain Hobson, Simon ^c   Will, Hans ^a   Meyerhans, Andreas ^b  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR EXPERIMENTAL VIROLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^c INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS RNA;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; CODON; DNA REPAIR; DNA SYNTHESIS; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MOLECULAR CLONING; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIRUS MUTATION;

HEPATITIS B VIRUS;

EID: 0342378081     PISSN: 00426822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/viro.1997.8676     Document Type: Article

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