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Transition of the molecular characteristics during latent period. The acquired cellular characteristics such as promoting cell proliferation and apoptotic resistance are conferred by viral genes in early-phase infected cells and by genetic/epigenetic abnormalities in late-phase ATL cells. The aberrant characteristics are acquired and imprinted, nevertheless Tax disappears. The consequent genotype and epigenotype support the differential phenotypes and the disease entities.
