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Molecular variants of human papillomavirus type 16 and risk for cervical neoplasia in South Africa.
International journal of gynecological cancer : official journal of the International Gynecological Cancer Society - 1 Jan 2000
Tu J J, Kuhn L, Denny L, Beattie K J, Lorincz A, Wright T C
Abstract excerpt
Non-European variants of human papillomavirus (HPV) type 16 are generally associated with a greater risk of cervical neoplasia than European prototype variants. We investigated whether this association would persist in a population in which non-European HPV 16 variants were more common. We sequenced HPV 16 isolates in cervical samples collected from 93 Black South African women enrolled in a cervical cancer...
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