Human Endogenous Retrovirus Family HERV-K(HML-5): Status, Evolution, and Reconstruction of an Ancient Betaretrovirus in the Human Genome

The human genome harbors numerous distinct families of so-called human endogenous retroviruses (HERV) which are remnants of exogenous retroviruses that entered the germ line millions of years ago. We describe here the hitherto little-characterized betaretrovirus HERV-K(HML-5) family (named HERVK22 i...

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Main Authors: Lavie, Laurence, Medstrand, Patrik, Schempp, Werner, Meese, Eckart, Mayer, Jens
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2004
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Recombination and Evolution
Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC479102/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15280487
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1128/JVI.78.16.8788-8798.2004
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