Epidemiological comparisons of codon usage patterns among HIV-1 isolates from Asia, Europe, Africa and the Americas

Experimental and Molecular Medicine

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 643-651

  Ahn, Insung ^a,b   Hyeon, Seok Son ^b  

^a Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information (KISTI)   (South Korea)

^b Seoul National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Computational biology; Genes, env; Genes, gag; Genomics; HIV 1; Sequence analysis, RNA

Indexed keywords

CAPSID PROTEIN; GLYCOPROTEIN GP 120; GLYCOPROTEIN GP 41; MATRIX PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; CELL MEMBRANE; CODON USAGE; CORRESPONDENCE ANALYSIS; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; VIRUS ENVELOPE; VIRUS ISOLATION;

HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; MIRIDAE;

EID: 33846217429     PISSN: 12263613     EISSN: 20926413     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/emm.2006.76     Document Type: Article

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