Table 3 HHV8 tag counts in the AIDS-KS SAGE libraries For comparison tag numbers for each group were normalized to 50,000.

TCTCCTGTCG

ORF59, or Processivity Factor PF8 (DNA replication): secondary lytic gene ^a

8

0

TTCAAAAACA

T0.7 transcript: primary lytic gene ^a,b

5

1

TTATACTTTT

T1.1 transcript, or NUT-1 /PAN: primary lytic gene ^a,b

5

1

TTGGGTCCAC

ORF K4.2, or IE-3: secondary lytic gene ^a

3

1

CGCGGCGGTG

ORF 18: secondary lytic gene ^a

3

0