Human endogenous retrovirus K14C drove genomic diversification of the Y chromosome during primate evolution

Journal of Human Genetics

Volumn 55, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 717-725

  Sin, Ho Su ^a   Koh, Eitetsu ^a   Kim, Dae Soo ^b   Murayama, Miho ^c   Sugimoto, Kazuhiro ^a   Maeda, Yuji ^a   Yoshida, Atsumi ^d   Namiki, Mikio ^a  

^a KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology (KRIBB)   (South Korea)

^c WILDLIFE RESEARCH CENTER OF KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d Reproduction Center Kiba Park Clinic   (Japan)

Author keywords

great ape; hominoid; long terminal repeat; old world monkey; palindrome; solitary LTR; testis specific transcripts

Indexed keywords

PALINDROMIC DNA;

AMPLICON; APE; ARTICLE; CELL LINEAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUS; EVOLUTIONARY DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; GENE DOSAGE; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC SCREENING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUS K14C; HUMAN GENOME; LAST COMMON ANCESTOR; LONG TERMINAL REPEAT; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIMATE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TESTIS; Y CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, Y; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUSES; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC VARIATION; HAPLORHINI; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS; MALE; PRIMATES; TERMINAL REPEAT SEQUENCES; TESTIS; VIRAL PROTEINS; Y CHROMOSOME;

CERCOPITHECIDAE; HOMINIDAE; HOMINOIDEA; HUMAN ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUS; HUMAN ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUSES; PRIMATES;

EID: 78649510670     PISSN: 14345161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/jhg.2010.94     Document Type: Article

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