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Cutaneous human papillomavirus infection, the EVER2 gene and incidence of squamous cell carcinoma: a case-control study.
International journal of cancer - 15 May 2008
Patel Anita S, Karagas Margaret R, Pawlita Michael, Waterboer Tim, Nelson Heather H
Abstract excerpt
The first evidence of an association between HPV and non-melanoma skin cancer comes from patients with epidermodysplasia verruciformis (EV). EV is a rare heritable disease characterized by cutaneous warts that display not only a high rate of progression to squamous cell carcinoma on sun-exposed sites, but also a strong predisposition to infection by beta-HPVs, for which HPV 5 and 8 predominate. Two EV genes...
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