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HPV16/18 prevalence in cervical lesions/cancers and p53 genotypes in cervical cancer patients from India.
Gynecologic oncology - 1 Aug 2002
Saranath D, Khan Z, Tandle A T, Dedhia P, Sharma B, Contractor R, Shrivastava S, Dinshaw K
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVES: The HPV16/18 code for an oncoprotein-E6, which binds to p53 tumor suppressor protein and degrades the protein via ubiquitination. A common polymorphism of p53 in exon 4 codon 72, resulting in either proline (Pro) or arginine (Arg), affects HPV16/18 E6-mediated degradation of p53 protein in vivo. Hence, in the current study we investigated the prevalence of HPV16/18 in cervical lesions and the...
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