INTRODUCTION The 1986 Chernobyl (Chornobyl in Ukrainian) nuclear power plant
accident exposed millions of individuals in the surrounding region to radioactive …

Although most cervical human papillomavirus type 16 (HPV16) infections become
undetectable within 1–2 years, persistent HPV16 causes half of all cervical cancers. We …

Background: HPV16 is a common sexually transmitted infection although few infections lead
to cervical precancer/cancer; we cannot distinguish nor mechanistically explain why only …

The etiologic contribution of germline genetic variation to sporadic osteosarcoma is not well
understood. Osteosarcoma is a sentinel cancer of Li-Fraumeni syndrome (LFS), in which …

Of the~ 60 human papillomavirus (HPV) genotypes that infect the cervicovaginal epithelium,
only 12–13 “high-risk” types are well-established as causing cervical cancer, with HPV16 …

Metastasis is the leading cause of death in patients with osteosarcoma, the most common
pediatric bone malignancy. We conducted a multistage genome-wide association study of …

Diamond-Blackfan anemia (DBA) is a cancer-prone inherited bone marrow failure
syndrome. Approximately half of DBA patients have a germ-line mutation in a ribosomal …

For unknown reasons, there is huge variability in risk conferred by different HPV types and,
remarkably, strong differences even between closely related variant lineages within each …

Purpose: Cervical cancer is one of the most common causes of cancer mortality for women
living in poverty, causing more than 28,000 deaths annually in Latin America and 266,000 …

Background Diamond-Blackfan anaemia (DBA) is an inherited bone marrow failure
syndrome (IBMFS) characterised by erythroid hypoplasia. It is associated with congenital …