Selected Publications

Hughes JF, Coffin JM. (2001) Evidence for genomic rearrangements mediated by human endogenous retroviruses during primate evolution. Nat Genet. 2001 Dec;29(4):487-9.
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Zhou H, Rainey GJ, Wong SK, Coffin JM. (2001) Substrate sequence selection by retroviral integrase. J Virol. 2001 Feb;75(3):1359-70.
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Rouzine, I.M., Rodrigo, A., and Coffin, J.M. (2001) Transition between stochastic evolution and deterministic evolution in the presence of selection: General theory and application to virology. Microbiol. Mol. Biol. Rev. 65:151-185.
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Weidhaas, J.B., Angelichio, E.L., Fenner, S., and Coffin, J.M. (2000) Relationship between retroviral DNA integration and gene expression. J. Virol. 74: 8382-8389.
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Rouzine, I.M., and Coffin, J.M. (1999) Linkage disequilibrium test implies a large effective population number for HIV in vivo. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 96: 10758-10763.
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Rouzine, I.M., and Coffin, J.M. (1999) Search for the mechanism of genetic variation in the pro gene of human immunodeficiency virus. J. Virol. 73: 8167-8178.
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Johnson, W.E., and Coffin, J.M. (1999) Constructing primate phylogenies from ancient retrovirus sequences. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 96: 10254-10260.
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Tomonaga, K., and Coffin, J.M. (1999) Structures of endogenous nonecotropic murine leukemia virus (MLV) long terminal repeats in wild mice: implication for evolution of MLVs.
J. Virol. 73: 4327-4340.
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Reuss, F.U., and Coffin, J.M. (1998) Mouse mammary tumor virus superantigen expression in B cells is regulated by a central enhancer within the pol gene. J. Virol. 72: 6073-6082.
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Coffin, J.M., Hughes, S.H., and Varmus, H.E. (eds.). (1997) Retroviruses. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press: Cold Spring Harbor, NY. [Link to Retroviruses at the National Center for Biotechnology Information website] [For more information, go to the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press website.]

Taplitz, R.A., and Coffin, J.M. (1997) Selection of an avian retrovirus mutant with extended receptor usage. J. Virol. 71: 7814-7819.
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Coffin, J.M. (1995) HIV population dynamics in vivo: Implications for genetic variation, pathogenesis, and therapy. Science 267: 483-488.
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Withers-Ward, E.S., Kitamura, Y., Barnes, J.P., and Coffin, J.M. (1994) Distribution of targets for avian retrovirus DNA integration in vivo. Genes Dev. 8: 1473-1487.

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