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Genetic features of Mexican women predisposing to cancer of the uterine cervix.
Human pathology - 1 Jun 1999
Silva B, Vargas-Alarcón G, Zúñiga-Ramos J, Rodríguez-Reyna T S, Hernández-Martinez B, Osnaya N, Kofman S, Torres-Lobatón A, Granados J
Abstract excerpt
Cervical carcinoma is the most common neoplasia in Mexican women. Previous studies report association of this neoplasia with the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) antigens in Caucasians. In the present study, we compared antigen frequencies of class I and class II MHC phenotypes in patients and ethnically matched healthy controls. Patients had significantly increased frequencies of HLA-A2 (PC = .000003) and...
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