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Association of HLA-A, -B, DRB, and DQB Alleles with Persistent HPV-16 Infection in Women from Tamil Nadu, India.
Viral immunology - 1 Dec 2019
Bhaskaran Muthumeenakshi, Murali Sree Varshini, Rajaram Barathi, Krishnasamy Sundar, Devasena C S, Pathak Atima, Ravi Vidhya, Swaminathan Krishnan, Ayyappa Ashok, Vedhantham Srinivasan, Seshachalam Arun, ArunKumar GaneshPrasad
Abstract excerpt
Women with persistent human papillomavirus (HPV) infections have a high risk of developing cervical cancer (CaCx). HPV-16 alone accounts for more than 60% of CaCx worldwide. Most of the HPV infections are transient and only a subset of women develop persistent HPV-16 infection. Many studies have shown associations of different human leukocyte antigen (HLA) alleles with HPV-mediated CaCx, but there are only a few...
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