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Hybridisation of RNA from a baboon endogenous type C RNA virus to DNA from tissues of leukaemic patients indicates that a virus of this type is horizontally transmitted among humans. DNA from several patients with leukaemia hybridised 70% of the hybridisable RNA from baboon endogenous type C RNA virus (BaEV) and yielded hybrids of high tm, whereas DNA from normal human tissues hybridised only 23% of the BaEV RNA, and the tm of these hybrids was lower.
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Wong-Staal, F., Gillespie, D. & Gallo, R. Proviral sequences of baboon endogenous type C RNA virus in DNA of human leukaemic tissues. Nature 262, 190–195 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1038/262190a0
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