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Mobile elements and viral integrations prompt considerations for bacterial DNA integration as a novel carcinogen.
Cancer letters - 1 Oct 2014
Robinson Kelly M, Dunning Hotopp Julie C
Abstract excerpt
Insertional mutagenesis has been repeatedly demonstrated in cancer genomes and has a role in oncogenesis. Mobile genetic elements can induce cancer development by random insertion into cancer related genes or by inducing translocations. L1s are typically implicated in cancers of an epithelial cell origin, while Alu elements have been implicated in leukemia as well as epithelial cell cancers. Likewise, viral...
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