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Unexpected inverse correlation between Native American ancestry and Asian American variants of HPV16 in admixed Colombian cervical cancer cases.
Infection, genetics and evolution : journal of molecular epidemiology and evolutionary genetics in infectious diseases - 1 Dec 2014
Lopera Esteban A, Baena Armando, Florez Victor, Montiel Jehidys, Duque Constanza, Ramirez Tatiana, Borrero Mauricio, Cordoba Carlos M, Rojas Fredy, Pareja Rene, Bedoya Astrid M, Bedoya Gabriel, Sanchez Gloria I
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: European (E) variants of HPV 16 are evenly distributed among world regions, meanwhile Non-European variants such as European-Asian (EAs), Asian American (AA) and African (Af) are mostly confined to Eastern Asia, The Americas and African regions respectively. Several studies have shown that genetic variation of HPV 16 is associated with the risk of cervical cancer, which also seems to be dependent on...
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