Co-expression of AFAP1-AS1 and PD-1 predicts poor prognosis in nasopharyngeal carcinoma

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Volumn 8, Issue 24, 2017, Pages 39001-39011

  Tang, Yanyan ^a,b   He, Yi ^b   Shi, Lei ^c   Yang, Liting ^b   Wang, Jinpeng ^b   Lian, Yu ^b   Fan, Chunmei ^b   Zhang, Ping ^b   Guo, Can ^b   Zhang, Shanshan ^a   Gong, Zhaojian ^b,c   Li, Xiayu ^b   Xiong, Fang ^a   Li, Xiaoling ^a,b   Li, Yong ^b,d   Li, Guiyuan ^a,b   Xiong, Wei ^a,b   Zeng, Zhaoyang ^a,b  

^a CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

AFAP1 AS1; Long non coding RNA; Nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC); Prognosis; Programmed death 1 (PD 1)

Indexed keywords

ACTIN FILAMENT ASSOCIATED PROTEIN 1 ANTISENSE RNA 1; LONG UNTRANSLATED RNA; PARAFFIN; PROGRAMMED DEATH 1 RECEPTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; AFAP1-AS1 LONG NONCODING RNA, HUMAN; PDCD1 PROTEIN, HUMAN; TUMOR MARKER;

ARTICLE; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CARCINOGENESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISTANT METASTASIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFORMED CONSENT; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NASOPHARYNX CARCINOMA; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; PROTEIN TARGETING; UPREGULATION; BIOSYNTHESIS; CARCINOMA; IMMUNOLOGY; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; MORTALITY; NASOPHARYNX TUMOR; PATHOLOGY; PROGNOSIS; TUMOR ASSOCIATED LEUKOCYTE; TUMOR ESCAPE;

BIOMARKERS, TUMOR; CARCINOMA; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; LYMPHOCYTES, TUMOR-INFILTRATING; NASOPHARYNGEAL CARCINOMA; NASOPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; PROGNOSIS; PROGRAMMED CELL DEATH 1 RECEPTOR; RNA, LONG NONCODING; TUMOR ESCAPE;

EID: 85014780126     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19492553     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18632/oncotarget.16545     Document Type: Article

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