AAVS1 explained

Adeno-associated virus integration site 1 is a viral integration site that in humans is encoded by the AAVS1 gene located on chromosome 19.^[1]

Further reading

• Ward P, Walsh CE . Targeted integration of a rAAV vector into the AAVS1 region . Virology . 433 . 2 . 356–66 . November 2012 . 22981435 . 10.1016/j.virol.2012.08.015 . free .
• Kotin RM, Linden RM, Berns KI . 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 . December 1992 . 10.1002/j.1460-2075.1992.tb05614.x . 1334463 . 556985 .

Notes and References

1. Web site: Entrez Gene: Adeno-associated virus integration site 1 .