Identifying recombination hot spots in the HIV-1 genome

Journal of Virology

Volumn 88, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 2891-2902

  Smyth, Redmond P ^a,b,c   Schlub, Timothy E ^d   Grimm, Andrew J ^e   Waugh, Caryll ^g,h   Ellenberg, Paula ^a   Chopra, Abha ^f   Mallal, Simon ^f   Cromer, Deborah ^e   Mak, Johnson ^g,h   Davenport, Miles P ^e  

^a BURNET INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^f MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^g DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^h CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAG PROTEIN; POL PROTEIN; PROTEINASE INHIBITOR; RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE INHIBITOR;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG RESISTANCE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GROUP SPECIFIC ANTIGEN GENE; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRUCTURAL GENE; T LYMPHOCYTE; VIRUS ENTRY; VIRUS GENE; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS RECOMBINATION; VIRUS VIRULENCE;

GAG GENE PRODUCTS, HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME, VIRAL; HIV-1; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POL GENE PRODUCTS, HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; REASSORTANT VIRUSES; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC;

EID: 84896740198     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: 10985514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.03014-13     Document Type: Article

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