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Fingerprints of Epstein-Barr virus in nasopharyngeal carcinoma

The influence of Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) on cancer is not well understood. High-throughput sequencing of nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) illustrates the influences of EBV on oncogenesis and identifies driver pathways that might be therapeutically useful for NPC treatment.

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Figure 1: NPC represents a complex tumor microenvironment including EBV and lymphocytes.

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West, R. Fingerprints of Epstein-Barr virus in nasopharyngeal carcinoma. Nat Genet 46, 809–810 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/ng.3038

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