Recombinant origin, contamination, and de-discovery of XMRV

Current Opinion in Virology

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 499-507

  Delviks Frankenberry, Krista ^a   Cingöz, Oya ^b   Coffin, John M ^b   Pathak, Vinay K ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

APOLIPOPROTEIN B MESSENGER RNA EDITING ENZYME CATALYTIC POLYPEPTIDE 3F; APOLIPOPROTEIN B MESSENGER RNA EDITING ENZYME CATALYTIC POLYPEPTIDE 3G; AZACITIDINE; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; PLASMID DNA; TRIPARTITE MOTIF PROTEIN 5; VIF PROTEIN; VIRUS DNA; VIRUS RNA;

ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PERIPHERAL BLOOD MONONUCLEAR CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE TUMOR; QUALITY CONTROL; TUMOR XENOGRAFT; VIRAL CONTAMINATION; VIRUS REPLICATION; XENOTROPIC MULV RELATED VIRUS;

EID: 84865129369     PISSN: 18796257     EISSN: 18796265     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.coviro.2012.06.009     Document Type: Review

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