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The ATHENA HPV study underrepresents "other" high-risk HPV genotypes when compared with a diverse New York City population.
Cytopathology : official journal of the British Society for Clinical Cytology - 1 Oct 2017
Ramos Rivera G, Khader S N, Lajara S, Schlesinger K, Goldstein D Y, Naeem R C, Suhrland M J, Fox A S
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OBJECTIVE: Persistent infection with oncogenic high risk HPV (hrHPV) types causes virtually all cases of cervical cancer. HPV 16 and 18 have been targeted for individual genotyping and vaccination because of their presence in 71% of invasive cervical cancers worldwide. Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, New York serves a population known for ethnic and racial diversity. Given this diversity it is possible that HPV...
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