Leptin Receptor Isoform 219.1: An Example of Protein Evolution by LINE-1-Mediated Human-Specific Retrotransposition of a Coding SVA Element

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 647-651

  Damert, Annette ^a   Löwer, Johannes ^a   Löwer, Roswitha ^a  

^a PAUL EHRLICH INSTITUT   (Germany)

Author keywords

HERV K; L1; Leptin receptor; Retrotransposition; SINE R; SVA

Indexed keywords

ISOPROTEIN; LEPTIN RECEPTOR;

ARTICLE; GENE; GENE LOCUS; HUMAN; LEPR GENE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PROTEIN VARIANT; RETROPOSON;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 9; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; EXONS; HUMANS; INTRONS; LONG INTERSPERSED NUCLEOTIDE ELEMENTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; PRIMATES; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

INSERTION SEQUENCES; PAN (APE);

EID: 1842452870     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msh056     Document Type: Article

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