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CCR2-V64I polymorphism is associated with increased risk of cervical cancer but not with HPV infection or pre-cancerous lesions in African women

BACKGROUND: Cervical cancer, caused by specific oncogenic types of human papillomavirus (HPV), is the second most common cancer in women worldwide. A large number of young sexually active women get infected by HPV but only a small fraction of them have persistent infection and develop cervical cance...

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Autores principales: Chatterjee, Koushik, Dandara, Collet, Hoffman, Margaret, Williamson, Anna-Lise
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2893113/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20537184
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2407-10-278