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Re-evaluation of the carcinogenic significance of hepatitis B virus integration in hepatocarcinogenesis.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2012
Jiang Suzhen, Yang Ziwei, Li Weijie, Li Xiaojun, Wang Yongfeng, Zhang Jiangbo, Xu Chunhui, Chen Pei-Jer, Hou Jinlin, McCrae Malcolm A, Chen Xiangmei, Zhuang Hui, Lu Fengmin
Abstract excerpt
To examine the role of hepatitis B virus (HBV) integration in hepatocarcinogenesis, a systematic comparative study of both tumor and their corresponding non-tumor derived tissue has been conducted in a cohort of 60 HBV associated hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) patients. By using Alu-polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and ligation-mediated PCR, 233 viral-host junctions mapped across all human chromosomes at random,...
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