Viral-human chimeric transcript predisposes risk to liver cancer development and progression

CC Lau, T Sun, AKK Ching, M He, JW Li, AM Wong… - Cancer cell, 2014 - cell.com
The mutagenic effect of hepatitis B (HBV) integration in predisposing risk to hepatocellular
carcinoma (HCC) remains elusive. In this study, we performed transcriptome sequencing of …

[HTML][HTML] The function of targeted host genes determines the oncogenicity of HBV integration in hepatocellular carcinoma

X Li, J Zhang, Z Yang, J Kang, S Jiang, T Zhang… - Journal of …, 2014 - Elsevier
Background & Aims Although hepatitis B virus (HBV) integration into the human genome has
been considered as one of the major causative factors to hepatocarcinogenesis, the …

The effects of hepatitis B virus integration into the genomes of hepatocellular carcinoma patients

Z Jiang, S Jhunjhunwala, J Liu, PM Haverty… - Genome …, 2012 - genome.cshlp.org
Hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection is a leading risk factor for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC).
HBV integration into the host genome has been reported, but its scale, impact and …

Hepatitis B virus integrations promote local and distant oncogenic driver alterations in hepatocellular carcinoma

C Péneau, S Imbeaud, T La Bella, TZ Hirsch, S Caruso… - Gut, 2022 - gut.bmj.com
Objective Infection by HBV is the main risk factor for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC)
worldwide. HBV directly drives carcinogenesis through integrations in the human genome …

Recurrent targeted genes of hepatitis B virus in the liver cancer genomes identified by a next-generation sequencing–based approach

D Ding, X Lou, D Hua, W Yu, L Li, J Wang, F Gao… - PLoS …, 2012 - journals.plos.org
Integration of the viral DNA into host chromosomes was found in most of the hepatitis B virus
(HBV)–related hepatocellular carcinomas (HCCs). Here we devised a massive anchored …

Genome-wide survey of recurrent HBV integration in hepatocellular carcinoma

WK Sung, H Zheng, S Li, R Chen, X Liu, Y Li, NP Lee… - Nature …, 2012 - nature.com
To survey hepatitis B virus (HBV) integration in liver cancer genomes, we conducted
massively parallel sequencing of 81 HBV-positive and 7 HBV-negative hepatocellular …

Genomic and oncogenic preference of HBV integration in hepatocellular carcinoma

LH Zhao, X Liu, HX Yan, WY Li, X Zeng, Y Yang… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Hepatitis B virus (HBV) can integrate into the human genome, contributing to genomic
instability and hepatocarcinogenesis. Here by conducting high-throughput viral integration …

[HTML][HTML] Characterization of HBV integration patterns and timing in liver cancer and HBV-infected livers

M Furuta, H Tanaka, Y Shiraishi, T Unida, M Imamura… - Oncotarget, 2018 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Integration of Hepatitis B virus (HBV) into the human genome can cause genetic instability,
leading to selective advantages for HBV-induced liver cancer. Despite the large number of …

Deep sequencing of the hepatitis B virus in hepatocellular carcinoma patients reveals enriched integration events, structural alterations and sequence variations

ST Toh, Y Jin, L Liu, J Wang, F Babrzadeh… - …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection is epidemiologically associated with hepatocellular
carcinoma (HCC), but its role in HCC remains poorly understood due to technological …

[HTML][HTML] Role of hepatitis B virus DNA integration in human hepatocarcinogenesis

H Hai, A Tamori, N Kawada - World journal of gastroenterology …, 2014 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Liver cancer ranks sixth in cancer incidence, and is the third leading cause of cancer-related
deaths worldwide. Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the most common type of liver cancer …