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[New putative gene from human retrovirus-containing locus on chromosome 19]
P P Khil'1, Iu B Lebedev, E D Sverdlov
1Shemyakin-Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia.
Bioorganicheskaia Khimiia
|April 29, 1998
Abstract:
By means of cDNA selection, a cDNA clone corresponding to a putative gene was isolated. The identified gene was mapped to human chromosome 19 (region 19q12) to the locus containing the human endogenous retrovirus HERV-K LTR. The distance between the LTR and the cDNA fragment is about 20 kb. RT-PCR analysis of the total RNA revealed that the corresponding gene is preferentially expressed in the brain.