Human endogenous retrovirus K106 (HERV-k106) was infectious after the emergence of anatomically modern humans

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Jha, Aashish R ^a   Nixon, Douglas F ^b   Rosenberg, Michael G ^c   Martin, Jeffrey N ^d   Deeks, Steven G ^d   Hudson, Richard R ^a   Garrison, Keith E ^e   Pillai, Satish K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e SAINT MARY'S COLLEGE OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE INSERTION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LONG TERMINAL REPEAT; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; RETROVIRUS; RETROVIRUS INFECTION; RETROVIRUS K106; RETROVIRUS K106 INFECTION; RETROVIRUS K116; BINDING SITE; CLASSIFICATION; ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HUMAN GENOME; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; PROVIRUS; TIME; VIRUS GENOME;

HUMAN ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUS;

BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUSES; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME, HUMAN; GENOME, VIRAL; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; PHYLOGENY; PROVIRUSES; TERMINAL REPEAT SEQUENCES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 79957492160     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0020234     Document Type: Article

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