Methodology and software to detect viral integration site hot-spots

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Modern gene therapy methods have limited control over where a therapeutic viral vector inserts into the host genome. Vector integration can activate local gene expression, which can cause cancer if the vector inserts near an oncogene...

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Main Authors: Kim Namshin, Presson Angela P, Xiaofei Yan, Chen Irvin SY, Kim Sanggu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2011-09-01
Series:BMC Bioinformatics
Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/12/367