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Epigenetic pathogenesis of human papillomavirus in upper aerodigestive tract cancers.
Molecular carcinogenesis - 1 Nov 2015
Talukdar Fazlur Rahman, Ghosh Sankar Kumar, Laskar Ruhina Shirin, Kannan Ravi, Choudhury Biswadeep, Bhowmik Arup
Abstract excerpt
Human papillomavirus (HPV) has been recently associated with squamous cell carcinoma of upper aerodigestive tract (SCC of UADT), but its possible role in promoting aberrant methylation in these tumors has largely remained unexplored. Herein, we investigated the association of HPV with aberrant methylation in tumor-related genes/loci consisting of the classical CpG Island Methylator Phenotype (CIMP) panel markers...
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