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Comparative analyses of LTRs of the ERV-H family of primate-specific retrovirus-like elements isolated from marmoset, African green monkey, and man.
Virology - 21 Jul 1997
Anderssen S, Sjøttem E, Svineng G, Johansen T
Abstract excerpt
We have isolated 8 different long terminal repeat (LTR) sequences of the ERV-H family of endogenous retrovirus-like elements from human chromosome 18, 9 from African green monkey, and 28 from marmoset. Human ERV-H LTRs have been divided into three types designated Type I, Type Ia, and Type II. Comparative analyses of the 45 isolated LTRs and 60 human ERV-H LTRs enabled a further subdivision into 13 subtypes. Type...
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