Identification of endogenous retroviral reading frames in the human genome

Retrovirology

Volumn 1, Issue , 2004, Pages

  Villesen, Palle ^a   Aagaard, Lars ^a   Wiuf, Carsten ^a   Pedersen, Finn Skou ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA; VIRUS ENVELOPE PROTEIN; VIRUS PROTEIN; ZEBRAFISH PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME ANALYSIS; HUMAN GENOME; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PROMOTER REGION; RETROVIRUS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

EID: 18144416982     PISSN: 17424690     EISSN: 17424690     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1742-4690-1-32     Document Type: Article

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