| Literature DB >> 2551868 |
M Shimakage1, M Chatani, N Ikegami, K Hirai.
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Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) is known to be associated with two malignant diseases, nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) and endemic Burkitt's lymphoma. In this study, the genomes of EBV in biopsy specimens from 4 NPC patients in Japan were analyzed using Southern blot hybridization. The NPC tissues of all examined cases contained rearranged EBV genomes whose BamHI H fragments were larger than those of prototype EBV genomes. One of them had a BamHI fragment containing contiguous sequences of BamHI Y and H. A single-sized EBV DNA terminus was observed in these NPC tissues, implying the evolution of the carcinoma from a single EBV-infected cell.Entities:
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Year: 1989 PMID: 2551868 PMCID: PMC5917820 DOI: 10.1111/j.1349-7006.1989.tb01685.x
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Jpn J Cancer Res ISSN: 0910-5050