Unusually long target site duplications flanking some of the long terminal repeats of human endogenous retrovirus K in the human genome

Journal of General Virology

Volumn 85, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1485-1488

  Mamedov, Ilgar Z ^a   Lebedev, Yuri B ^a   Sverdlov, Eugene D ^a  

^a SHEMYAKIN OVCHINNIKOV INSTITUTE OF BIOORGANIC CHEMISTRY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DNA INTEGRATION; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE INSERTION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENE TARGETING; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; LONG TERMINAL REPEAT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROVIRUS; ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUS; GENETICS; GENOME; VIRUS DNA CELL DNA INTERACTION;

HUMAN ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUS; HUMAN ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUS K; HUMAN ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUSES; INSERTION SEQUENCES; UNIDENTIFIED RETROVIRUS;

ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUSES; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; TERMINAL REPEAT SEQUENCES; VIRUS INTEGRATION;

EID: 2942657397     PISSN: 00221317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/vir.0.19717-0     Document Type: Article

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