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SUBMITTER: Chen X
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3597058 | biostudies-literature | 2011 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Chen Xiaojun X Jiang Jie J Shen Hongbing H Hu Zhibin Z
Journal of biomedical research 20110501 3
Epidemiological and laboratory-based studies have identified infection with one of 15 high-risk human papillomavirus (HPV) types as a necessary but not sufficient cause of cervical cancer. The prevalence of genital HPV infections is high in young women, but most of the infections regress without interventions. Host genetic variations in genes involved in immune response pathways may be related to HPV clearance, and HPV E6/E7 oncoproteins interacting or downstream genes, both coding and non-codin ...[more]