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Methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase (MTHFR) polymorphism increases the risk of cervical intraepithelial neoplasia.
Anticancer research - 1 Jan 2000
Piyathilake C J, Macaluso M, Johanning G L, Whiteside M, Heimburger D C, Giuliano A
Abstract excerpt
Although cervical cancer is a common female cancer, little attention has been given to genetic susceptibility factors. The present case-control study was undertaken to examine MTHFR polymorphism as a potential molecular marker of cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN) susceptibility and to relate the findings to smoking, HPV infection, ethnicity, parity and oral contraceptive use, which are known risk factors...
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