Allelic variation of HERV-K(HML-2) endogenous retroviral elements in human populations

Journal of Molecular Evolution

Volumn 59, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 642-656

  Macfarlane, Catriona ^a   Simmonds, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Gene conversion; HERV K(HML 2); Human endogenous retrovirus (HERV); Human genome evolution; Provirus; Recombination; Retrovirus like sequences; Solitary LTR; SVA

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; ALLELE; ARTICLE; ASIA; DATA BASE; DNA DETERMINATION; EUROPE; EVOLUTION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC SCREENING; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; HOMINID; HUMAN; LONG TERMINAL REPEAT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION GENETICS; RETROVIRUS; SOUTHEAST ASIA; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN; ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUSES; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE DOSAGE; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PRIMATES; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; VARIATION (GENETICS);

HOMINIDAE; HUMAN ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUS; HUMAN ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUSES; INSERTION SEQUENCES; PRIMATES; RNA VIRUSES; UNIDENTIFIED RETROVIRUS;

EID: 12144282045     PISSN: 00222844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00239-004-2656-1     Document Type: Article

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