Disease Associations

Possible Association Between Certain HLA Class II Haplotypes and Cervical Cancer

Published in Women's Health Weekly, March 27th, 1995

Recent research explores the controversy surrounding the associations found with cervical dysplasia/invasive cervical carcinoma and human leukocyte antigen (HLA) DR-DQ.

Raymond J. Apple et al., from Roche Molecular Systems and the University of New Mexico Cancer Research and Treatment Center, suggest that specific HLA class II haplotypes may influence the immune response to human papillomavirus (HPV) infection and therefore affect the risk of developing invasive cervical carcinoma ("Comparison of Human Leukocyte Antigen DR-DQ Disease Associations Found with Cervical Dysplasia and Invasive Cervical Carcinoma," Journal of the National Cancer Institute, March 15,...

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