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Genomic Risk Factors for Cervical Cancer
2021-09-24
Abstract excerpt
Cervical cancer is the fourth common cancer amongst women worldwide. Environmental factors such as smoking and obesity, and recurrent infection by high-risk human papillomavirus subtypes are known to promote progression towards invasive cervical disease. Infection by high-risk HPV is necessary in most cases but not sufficient to develop invasive cervical cancer. Despite a predicted genetic heritability of between...
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- Literature Corpus work
- cdb444e3-a792-58f0-a2a2-19ad1e5362e1
- DOI
- 10.20944/preprints202109.0441.v1
