Human papillomavirus DNA in malignant an
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Wideroff, Louise; Schottenfeld, David; Carey, Thomas E.; Beals, Theodore; Fu, Gl
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Article
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1996
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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This study hypothesized that human papillomavirus (HPV) infection is associated with increased prostate cancer risk, and that the 40% higher incidence rate in blacks is attributable to a greater prevalence of oncogenic viral DNA in prostatic tissues. Viral L1 and E6 gene sequences were polymerase ch