Project Profile
Funding Organizations
Japan: | RIKEN |
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Japan: | Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare |
Research Organizations
Japan: Hiroshima University, Faculty of Medicine
Japan: Osaka Medical Center for Cancer & Cardiovascular Diseases
Research Activities

Publication Policy
1: | ICGC Goals, Structure, Policies and Guidelines Section E.3 - Publication Policy HTML ![]() |
2: | Template Letters to Facilitate Communications HTML ![]() to ensure appropriate dialogue between data users and generators and for authors to contact ICGC members and editors |
3: | NCC Project Specific Moratorium HTML ![]() |
4: | Riken Project Specific Moratorium HTML ![]() |

Clinic & Pathology
Japan: | National Cancer Center |
Hiroshima University, Faculty of Medicine | |
Osaka Medical Center for Cancer & Cardiovascular Diseases | |
Wakayama Medical University | |
Tokyo Women's Medical University |

Sequencing & Analysis
Japan: | RIKEN |
National Cancer Center | |
Human Genome Centre, Institute of Medical Science, University of Tokyo |

Complementary Studies
Japan: | National Cancer Center |
RIKEN | |
Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Tokyo | |
Human Genome Centre, Institute of Medical Science, University of Tokyo |

Data Storage, Analysis & Management
Japan: | RIKEN |
National Cancer Center | |
Human Genome Centre, Institute of Medical Science, University of Tokyo |
Project Summary
This project aims to elucidate the comprehensive somatic changes in the genome (mutation, rearrangement and copy number change), the epigenome (methylation etc.) and transcriptome of virus (both HBV and HCV)-associated hepatocellular carcinoma as an international contribution.
Principal Investigators
• Hidewaki Nakagawa
• Tatsuhiro Shibata