Bacteria-human somatic cell lateral gene transfer is enriched in cancer samples.

There are 10× more bacterial cells in our bodies from the microbiome than human cells. Viral DNA is known to integrate in the human genome, but the integration of bacterial DNA has not been described. Using publicly available sequence data from the human genome project, the 1000 Genomes Project, and...

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Main Authors: David R Riley, Karsten B Sieber, Kelly M Robinson, James Robert White, Ashwinkumar Ganesan, Syrus Nourbakhsh, Julie C Dunning Hotopp
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3688693?pdf=render