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Chromosomal sites for hepatitis B virus integration in human hepatocellular carcinoma.
Journal of virology - 1 Dec 1991
Tokino T, Matsubara K
Abstract excerpt
The discovery that hepatitis B virus (HBV) integrates into host chromosomes raises the question of whether such viral DNA integration correlates directly with the activation of specific oncogenes or the inactivation of anti-oncogenes. To obtain insight into this problem, we randomly collected HBV integrant samples from different human hepatocellular carcinomas and identified the site of chromosomal integration by...
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