SINGAPORE, May 31 (Xinhua) -- Scientists from Singapore, China and the United States have identified three new susceptibility genes of nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC), a cancer originating in the nasopharynx, the uppermost region of the "throat".The study, led by the Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS), a biomedical research institute of the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), and the Sun Yat-Sen University Cancer Center, the largest specialized cancer center in southern China, identified genetic risk factors of NPC that influenced the susceptibility to this cancer, an A*STAR statement said on Monday. Full Story
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