A systematic evaluation of expression of HERV-W elements; Influence of genomic context, viral structure and orientation

BMC Genomics

Volumn 12, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Li, Fang ^a   Nellåker, Christoffer ^b   Yolken, Robert H ^c   Karlsson, Håkan ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD72 ANTIGEN; MESSENGER RNA; MONOCARBOXYLATE TRANSPORTER; MONOCARBOXYLATE TRANSPORTER 10; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FOXP2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR TBX18; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXON; GENE LOCUS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN GENOME; HUMAN TISSUE; INTRON; LONG TERMINAL REPEAT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROVIRUS; PSEUDOGENE; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RETROVIRUS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; VIRAL GENETICS; VIRUS EXPRESSION; VIRUS MORPHOLOGY; CELL CULTURE; ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUS; GENETICS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

HUMAN ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUS W; HUMAN ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUSES;

CELLS, CULTURED; ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUSES; HUMANS; INTRONS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TERMINAL REPEAT SEQUENCES;

EID: 78651251533     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-12-22     Document Type: Article

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