The genomic landscape of Epstein-Barr virus-associated pulmonary lymphoepithelioma-like carcinoma

The rare lung cancer subtype pulmonary lymphoepithelioma-like carcinoma is linked to Epstein-Barr virus infection. Here, the authors provide a mutational landscape for this cancer, showing a low burden of somatic mutations and high prevalence of copy number variations.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Shaodong Hong, Dongbing Liu, Shuzhen Luo, Wenfeng Fang, Jianhua Zhan, Sha Fu, Yaxiong Zhang, Xuan Wu, Huaqiang Zhou, Xi Chen, Gang Chen, Zhonghan Zhang, Qiufan Zheng, Xiaobo Li, Jinghao Chen, Xingmin Liu, Mengyue Lei, Chen Ye, Jian Wang, Huanming Yang, Xun Xu, Shida Zhu, Yunpeng Yang, Yuanyuan Zhao, Ningning Zhou, Hongyun Zhao, Yan Huang, Lanjun Zhang, Kui Wu, Li Zhang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2019-07-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-10902-w