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Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Fiocruz
ISSN: 1678-8060 EISSN: 1678-8060
Vol. 111, No. 3, 2016, pp. 200-208
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Bioline Code: oc16028
Full paper language: English
Document type: Research Article
Document available free of charge
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Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Vol. 111, No. 3, 2016, pp. 200-208
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Assessment of Epstein-Barr virus nucleic acids in gastric but not in breast cancer by next-generation sequencing of pooled Mexican samples
Fuentes-Pananá, Ezequiel M.; Larios-Serrato, Violeta; Méndez-Tenorio, Alfonso; Morales-Sánchez, Abigail; Arias, Carlos F. & Torres, Javier
Abstract
Gastric (GC) and breast (BrC) cancer are two of the most common and deadly tumours. Different lines of evidence
suggest a possible causative role of viral infections for both GC and BrC. Wide genome sequencing (WGS)
technologies allow searching for viral agents in tissues of patients with cancer. These technologies have already
contributed to establish virus-cancer associations as well as to discovery new tumour viruses. The objective of this
study was to document possible associations of viral infection with GC and BrC in Mexican patients. In order to gain
idea about cost effective conditions of experimental sequencing, we first carried out an in silico simulation of WGS.
The next-generation-platform IlluminaGallx was then used to sequence GC and BrC tumour samples. While we did
not find viral sequences in tissues from BrC patients, multiple reads matching Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) sequences
were found in GC tissues. An end-point polymerase chain reaction confirmed an enrichment of EBV sequences in
one of the GC samples sequenced, validating the next-generation sequencing-bioinformatics pipeline.
Keywords
gastric cancer; breast cancer; gastritis; wide genome sequencing; EBV
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