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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Ramachandran D
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8533931 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

Cervical cancer is the fourth common cancer amongst women worldwide. Infection by high-risk human papilloma virus is necessary in most cases, but not sufficient to develop invasive cervical cancer. Despite a predicted genetic heritability in the range of other gynaecological cancers, only few genomic susceptibility loci have been identified thus far. Various case-control association studies have found corroborative evidence for several independent risk variants at the 6p21.3 locus (HLA), while m ...[more]