Epigenetics-The link between infectious diseases and cancer

JAMA

Volumn 305, Issue 14, 2011, Pages 1484-1485

  Stein, Richard A ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANUS CANCER; BREAST CANCER; BURKITT LYMPHOMA; CANCER RISK; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENETICS; EPSTEIN BARR VIRUS; EPSTEIN BARR VIRUS INFECTION; GENE SWITCHING; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMAN; INFECTION; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LYMPHOPROLIFERATIVE DISEASE; NASOPHARYNX CARCINOMA; NEOPLASM; NOTE; PAPILLOMATOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; VERRUCA VULGARIS; WART VIRUS;

EID: 79953879432     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.2011.446     Document Type: Note

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