virus theory ---Help

[Brian Foley]

oops wrote:
> 
> HELP !!
> 
>    DOES ANYONE OUT THERE KNOW what is the name of that VIRUS
>  (that had complete homology with a portion of human DNA) ??
> 
>    Thanks in advance
> 

Human Endogenous Retrovirus K (HERV-K):


for example from GenBank:

LOCUS       AF030046      595 bp    DNA             VRL      
20-APR-1998
DEFINITION  Human endogenous retrovirus K clone M3.10 polymerase mRNA,
partial
            cds.
ACCESSION   AF030046
NID         g3063957
KEYWORDS    .
SOURCE      Human endogenous retrovirus K.
  ORGANISM  Human endogenous retrovirus K
            Viruses; Retroid viruses; Retroviridae.
REFERENCE   1  (bases 1 to 595)
  AUTHORS   Zsiros,J., Jebbink,M.F., Voute,P.A. and Berkhout,B.
  TITLE     Identification of novel human endogenous retroviral
sequences
            belonging to the HERV-K family
  JOURNAL   Unpublished
...