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Alterations of the p53 gene in nasopharyngeal carcinoma.
Journal of virology - 1 Jun 1992
Effert P, McCoy R, Abdel-Hamid M, Flynn K, Zhang Q, Busson P, Tursz T, Liu E, Raab-Traub N
Abstract excerpt
Nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) is a malignancy which is consistently associated with the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV). The structure of the EBV genome in NPC suggests that NPC is a clonal proliferation of epithelial cells which emerges after EBV infection. The disease develops with high incidence in specific populations in discrete geographic locations, implicating possible genetic or environmental cofactors....
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