Article
Epstein-Barr virus strain variation in nasopharyngeal carcinoma from the endemic and non-endemic regions of China.
International journal of cancer - 13 Apr 1998
Sung N S, Edwards R H, Seillier-Moiseiwitsch F, Perkins A G, Zeng Y, Raab-Traub N
Abstract excerpt
Nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) occurs with a striking geographic incidence and is endemic in parts of southern China, where it is the major cause of cancer death. Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) is detected in all cells of the majority of NPC cases regardless of geographic origin. A small subset of EBV...
Topics
- Base Sequence
- China
- Consensus Sequence
- DNA, Viral
- Endemic Diseases
- Genes, Viral
- Genetic Variation
- Herpesviridae Infections
- Herpesvirus 4, Human
- Humans
- Nasopharyngeal Neoplasms
- Phylogeny
- Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid
- Tumor Virus Infections
- Viral Matrix Proteins