Defining the genetic susceptibility to cervical neoplasia-A genome-wide association study.

A small percentage of women with cervical HPV infection progress to cervical neoplasia, and the risk factors determining progression are incompletely understood. We sought to define the genetic loci involved in cervical neoplasia and to assess its heritability using unbiased unrelated case/control s...

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Main Authors: Paul J Leo, Margaret M Madeleine, Sophia Wang, Stephen M Schwartz, Felicity Newell, Ulrika Pettersson-Kymmer, Kari Hemminki, Goran Hallmans, Sven Tiews, Winfried Steinberg, Janet S Rader, Felipe Castro, Mahboobeh Safaeian, Eduardo L Franco, François Coutlée, Claes Ohlsson, Adrian Cortes, Mhairi Marshall, Pamela Mukhopadhyay, Katie Cremin, Lisa G Johnson, Cornelia L Trimble, Suzanne Garland, Sepehr N Tabrizi, Nicolas Wentzensen, Freddy Sitas, Julian Little, Maggie Cruickshank, Ian H Frazer, Allan Hildesheim, Matthew A Brown
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-08-01
Series:PLoS Genetics
Online Access:https://journals.plos.org/plosgenetics/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pgen.1006866&type=printable