Role of human endogenous retroviral long terminal repeats (LTRs) in maintaining the integrity of the human germ line

Viruses

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 901-905

  Liu, Meihong ^a   Eiden, Maribeth V ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Genomic stability; Primate evolution; Retroelement

Indexed keywords

GLOBIN; PROTEIN P53; PROTEIN P63;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ARTICLE; ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUS; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; GERM LINE; HUMAN; HUMAN VERSUS ANIMAL COMPARISON; LONG TERMINAL REPEAT; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; RETROVIRUS; SEX DIFFERENCE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUSES; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; MALE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RETROVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; TERMINAL REPEAT SEQUENCES; TESTIS; VIRUS INTEGRATION;

PRIMATES;

EID: 79959657334     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19994915     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/v3060901     Document Type: Article

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