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Human papillomaviruses: genetic basis of carcinogenicity.
Public health genomics - 1 Jan 2009
Burk Robert D, Chen Zigui, Van Doorslaer Koenraad
Abstract excerpt
Persistent infection by specific oncogenic human papillomaviruses (HPVs) is established as the necessary cause of cervix cancer. DNA sequence differences between HPV genomes determine whether an HPV has the potential to cause cancer. Of the more than 100 HPV genotypes characterized at the genetic...
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