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.

Bibliographic Details
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