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Marek’s Disease Virus (And correlation of resistance to Marek’s disease virus with the chicken B21 haplotype) What is Marek’s Disease? A highly contagious infection in chickens caused by a specific herpes virus that results in a rapidly fatal polyclonal lymphoma. What is Marek’s disease virus? A herpes virus – genome is double stranded, linear DNA May be oncogenic; i.e. it may be capable of causing cancer What kinds of viruses are oncogenic? RNA viruses – Of the RNA viruses, only the retroviruses are oncogenic. Acute transforming retroviruses carry in their own genome the gene that causes t