Detecting endogenous retrovirus-driven tissue-specific gene transcription

Genome Biology and Evolution

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 1082-1097

  Pavlicev, Mihaela ^a   Hiratsuka, Kaori ^a   Swaggart, Kayleigh A ^a   Dunn, Caitlin ^a   Muglia, Louis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Endogenous retrovirus; Long terminal repeats; LTR; Placenta; Transcriptome

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; HUMAN; LONG TERMINAL REPEAT; METABOLISM; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY;

ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUSES; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; TERMINAL REPEAT SEQUENCES; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84942278820     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17596653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evv049     Document Type: Article

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