| Literature DB >> 20653444 |
Pushpinder Kaur1, Anupam Paliwal, David Durantel, Pierre Hainaut, Jean-Yves Scoazec, Fabien Zoulim, Isabelle Chemin, Zdenko Herceg.
Abstract
Recent studies have identified the presence of methylation in the hepatitis B virus (HBV) genome and have suggested that it may be an important mechanism regulating transcription and replication of the HBV virus. However, it remains unclear whether this phenomenon is associated with occult hepatitis. Here, we performed a detailed analysis of DNA methylation in the HBV genome in liver samples of patients at different stages of hepatocarcinoma development and in in vitro infected hepatocytes and found discrete CpG sites in the HBV genome that are recurrently hypermethylated in cancer but not in chronic hepatitis tissue.Entities:
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Year: 2010 PMID: 20653444 DOI: 10.1086/655398
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Infect Dis ISSN: 0022-1899 Impact factor: 5.226