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Comparative Study
. 1989 Nov;63(11):4982-5.
doi: 10.1128/JVI.63.11.4982-4985.1989.

Ancestry of a human endogenous retrovirus family

R Mariani-Costantini  1 , T M Horn, R Callahan
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Comparative Study

Ancestry of a human endogenous retrovirus family

R Mariani-Costantini et al. J Virol. 1989 Nov.

Abstract

The human endogenous retrovirus type II (HERVII) family of HERV genomes has been found by Southern blot analysis to be characteristic of humans, apes, and Old World monkeys. New World monkeys and prosimians lack HERVII proviral genomes. Cellular DNAs of humans, common chimpanzees, gorillas, and orangutans, but not lesser ape lar gibbons, appear to contain the HERVII-related HLM-2 proviral genome integrated at the same site (HLM-2 maps to human chromosome 1). This suggests that the ancestral HERVII retrovirus(es) entered the genomes of Old World anthropoids by infection after the divergence of New World monkeys (platyrrhines) but before the evolutionary radiation of large hominoids.

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