Article
Sub-species niche specialization in the oral microbiome is associated with nasopharyngeal carcinoma risk
2019-10-07
Abstract excerpt
Oral health and changes in the oral microbiome have been associated with both local and systemic cancer. Poor oral hygiene is a known risk factor for Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma (NPC), a virally-associated head and neck cancer endemic to southern China. We explored the relationship between NPC and the oral microbiome using 16s rRNA sequencing in a study of 499 NPC patients and 495 population-based age and sex frequen...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 3b962fb6-d0af-54ae-9023-a48d78f908fb
- DOI
- 10.1101/782417
