APOBEC3A is an oral cancer prognostic biomarker in Taiwanese carriers of an APOBEC deletion polymorphism

APOBEC3A is an oral cancer prognostic biomarker in Taiwanese carriers of an APOBEC deletion polymorphism

Oral squamous cell carcinoma is a prevalent malignancy in Taiwan. Here, the authors show that OSCC in Taiwanese show a frequent deletion polymorphism in the cytidine deaminases gene cluster APOBEC3 resulting in increased expression of A3A, which is shown to be of clinical prognostic relevance.

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Main Authors: Ting-Wen Chen, Chi-Ching Lee, Hsuan Liu, Chi-Sheng Wu, Curtis R. Pickering, Po-Jung Huang, Jing Wang, Ian Yi-Feng Chang, Yuan-Ming Yeh, Chih-De Chen, Hsin-Pai Li, Ji-Dung Luo, Bertrand Chin-Ming Tan, Timothy En Haw Chan, Chuen Hsueh, Lichieh Julie Chu, Yi-Ting Chen, Bing Zhang, Chia-Yu Yang, Chih-Ching Wu, Chia-Wei Hsu, Lai-Chu See, Petrus Tang, Jau-Song Yu, Wei-Chao Liao, Wei-Fan Chiang, Henry Rodriguez, Jeffrey N. Myers, Kai-Ping Chang, Yu-Sun Chang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2017-09-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-00493-9

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https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-00493-9

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