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Association between DQB1 and cervical cancer in patients with human papillomavirus and family controls.
Obstetrics and gynecology - 1 Jan 2000
Neuman R J, Huettner P C, Li L, Mardis E R, Duffy B F, Wilson R K, Rader J S
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: The role of human leukocyte antigen (HLA) DQB1 alleles and human papillomavirus (HPV) as contributing factors to invasive cervical cancer was investigated. To overcome problems of misleading causal inferences common in traditional case-control studies, a family-based test, the transmission/disequilibrium test, was used. METHODS: Ninety-six patients with pathologically confirmed invasive cervical cancer...
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