Pluripotency and the endogenous retrovirus HERVH: Conflict or serendipity?

BioEssays

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 109-117

  Izsvák, Zsuzsanna ^a   Wang, Jichang ^a   Singh, Manvendra ^a   Mager, Dixie L ^b   Hurst, Laurence D ^c  

^a MAX DELBRÜCK CENTER FOR MOLECULAR MEDICINE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Endogenous retrovirus; ERV; Host defense; LBP9; Na ve; Pluripotency; Primate

Indexed keywords

CELL FUNCTION; CONVERGENT EVOLUTION; ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUS; FAMILY; FAMILY STUDY; GENOME; HUMAN; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; PRIMATE; ANIMAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HUMAN GENOME; MAMMAL; TRANSPOSON; VIROLOGY;

TRANSPOSON;

ANIMALS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUSES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; MAMMALS;

EID: 84956706251     PISSN: 02659247     EISSN: 15211878     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bies.201500096     Document Type: Article

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