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Science 22 February 2008:
Vol. 319. no. 5866, pp. 1049 - 1050
DOI: 10.1126/science.1155048
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Perspectives

CANCER:
A Skin Cancer Virus?

Raphael P. Viscidi1 Keerti V. Shah2

High-throughput DNA sequencing has identified a new human virus in a rare but aggressive form of skin cancer.

1Department of Pediatrics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA. E-mail: rviscid1{at}jhmi.edu

2Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA. E-mail: kvshah{at}jhsph.edu

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