Identification of a novel family of human endogenous retroviruses and characterization of one family member, HERV-K(C4), located in the complement C4 gene cluster

Basic local alignment search tool

1990 • 87,358 citations

Improved tools for biological sequence comparison.

1988 • 11,455 citations

Origin and evolution of retroelements based upon their reverse transcriptase sequences.

1990 • 1,351 citations

Histocompatibility Testing, 1975

1976 • 736 citations

Form and Function of Retroviral Proviruses

1982 • 627 citations

Enhancer elements

1983 • 576 citations

A molecular map of the human major histocompatibility complex class III region linking complement genes C4, C2 and factor B

1984 • 433 citations

Nucleotide sequence of human endogenous retrovirus genome related to the mouse mammary tumor virus genome

1986 • 334 citations

Highly preferred targets for retrovirus integration

1988 • 262 citations

Structure, variation and synthesis of retrovirus long terminal repeat

1981 • 236 citations

Identification and cloning of endogenous retroviral sequences present in human DNA.

1981 • 215 citations

An ancient provirus has imposed androgen regulation on the adjacent mouse sex-limited protein gene

1988 • 187 citations

Nucleotide sequence of a full-length human endogenous retroviral segment

1985 • 176 citations

Characterization of novel reverse transcriptase encoding human endogenous retroviral sequences similar to type A and type B retroviruses: differential transcription in normal human tissues

1993 • 158 citations

Molecular cloning and long terminal repeat sequences of human endogenous retrovirus genes related to types A and B retrovirus genes

1986 • 155 citations

Identification of a retrovirus-like repetitive element in human DNA.

1984 • 147 citations

The complete exon-intron structure of a human complement component C4A gene. DNA sequences, polymorphism, and linkage to the 21-hydroxylase gene.

1991 • 122 citations

Mechanism and consequences of the duplication of the human C4/P450c21/gene X locus.

1992 • 110 citations

Structure and organization of theC4genes

1984 • 89 citations

Recent Evolutionary Expansion of a Subfamily of RTVL-H Human Endogenous Retrovirus-like Elements

1993 • 81 citations

Integration site preferences of endogenous retroviruses

1991 • 74 citations

Endogenous retroviral long terminal repeats within the HLA-DQ locus.

1990 • 59 citations

Ancestry of a human endogenous retrovirus family

1989 • 57 citations

Heterogeneity of human C4 gene size

1987 • 49 citations

Isolation of novel human retrovirus-related sequences by hybridization to synthetic oligonucleotides complementary to the tRNA(Pro) primer-binding site

1987 • 49 citations

Characterisation of the novel gene G11 lying adjacent to the complement C4A gene in the human major histocompatibility complex

1994 • 48 citations

MHC-linked class III genes. Analysis of C4 gene frequencies, complotypes and associations with distinct HLA haplotypes in German Caucasians

1984 • 44 citations

Evidence for a functional subclass of the RTVL-H family of human endogenous retrovirus-like sequences

1993 • 41 citations

Amplification and chromosomal dispersion of human endogenous retroviral sequences

1986 • 40 citations

Three independent insertions of retrovirus-like sequences in the haptoglobin gene cluster of primates

1990 • 36 citations

Ancestry of SINE-R.C2 a human-specific retroposon

1994 • 35 citations

Mechanism and Consequences of the Duplication of the Human C4/P450c21/Gene X Locus

1992 • 28 citations

The coding sequence of the hemolytically inactive C4A6 allotype of human complement component C4 reveals that a single arginine to tryptophan substitution at beta-chain residue 458 is the likely cause of the defect.

1992 • 23 citations

Restriction fragment analysis of non-deleted complementC4 null genes suggests point mutations inC4A null alleles, but gene conversions inC4B null alleles

1989 • 22 citations

Polymorphism of C4 and CYP21 genes in various primate species

1991 • 16 citations