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AAVS1

Introduction

Adeno-associated virus integration site 1 is a viral integration site that in humans is encoded by the AAVS1 gene.^[1]

References

References

↑ “Entrez Gene: Adeno-associated virus integration site 1”.

Further reading

Further reading

Ward P, Walsh CE (November 2012). “Targeted integration of a rAAV vector into the AAVS1 region”. Virology. 433 (2): 356–66. doi:10.1016/j.virol.2012.08.015. PMID 22981435.
Kotin RM, Linden RM, Berns KI (December 1992). “Characterization of a preferred site on human chromosome 19q for integration of adeno-associated virus DNA by non-homologous recombination”. The EMBO Journal. 11 (13): 5071–8. PMC 556985. PMID 1334463.