Contribution of Immunogenetic Factors in Susceptibility to Cervical Cancer
Cervical cancer is the second most common cancer in women worldwide. Persistent infection by an oncogenic type of human papillomavirus (HPV) is a necessary but not sufficient cause and there is also a genetic component. This thesis aims to identify host genetic risk factors for cervical cancer based...
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Format: | Doctoral Thesis |
Language: | English |
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Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för genetik och patologi
2009
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Online Access: | http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-9552 http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:isbn:978-91-554-7410-2 |