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Sara Contente

Uniformed Services University of the Health SciencesORCID 0000-0002-8099-2817Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Cancer BiologybioRxivPreprintMay 6, 2025

A polyomavirus-positive Merkel cell carcinoma mouse model supports a unified cancer origin

Wenyi Yang, Sara Contente, Sadaf Rahman

This paper presents a mouse model of Merkel cell carcinoma that supports the idea that somatic cancers may originate from germ cell-like cells rather than mutations alone.

DOI 10.1101/2025.05.06.652325

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