Clonal Integration of a Polyomavirus in Human Merkel Cell Carcinoma

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Therapeutic cancer vaccines. (2010, background): “The Merkel cell carcinoma virus was only recently identified as the cause of a rare, rapidly metastasizing skin cancer (70, 71).”
T antigen mutations are a human tumor-specific signature for Merkel cell polyomavirus (2008, methodology): “The MCV DNA fragments (Contig1, Contig3, Contig6, Contig9, and Contig12) amplified by PCR were used to generate probes (3).”
Seroepidemiology of Human Polyomaviruses (2009, background): “Five human polyomaviruses have now been identified: BKV [1], JCV [2], KIV [3], WUV [4], and most recently, Merkel Cell Polyomavirus (MCV) [5].”
Why do viruses cause cancer? Highlights of the first century of human tumour virology (2010, background): “33 ) and MCV (together with Huicheng Feng from our group) in 2008 (Ref”
Fusobacterium nucleatum infection is prevalent in human colorectal carcinoma. (2012, background): “In oncology, the identification of a novel polyomavirus in Merkel Cell carcinoma (Feng et al. 2008) is a recent demonstration of the utility of a metagenomics approach.”