Mitochondrial DNA copy number in cervical exfoliated cells and risk of cervical cancer among HPV-positive women

• Main Authors: Wei Sun (Author), Xueyun Qin (Author), Jing Zhou (Author), Mingjing Xu (Author), Zhangyan Lyu (Author), Xin Li (Author), Kai Zhang (Author), Min Dai (Author), Ni Li (Author), Dong Hang (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2020-07-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Although human papillomavirus (HPV) infection has been regarded as the cause of cervical cancer in over 99% of cases, only a small fraction of HPV-infected women develop this malignancy. Emerging evidence suggests that alterations of mitochondrial DNA copy number (mtCN) may contr...