%0 Journal Article
%T Variants in immune-related genes and genital HPV 16 persistence in men
%A Anna R. Giuliano
%A Bigyan Mainali
%A Howard W. Wiener
%A Luisa L. Villa
%A Matthew B. Schabath
%A Sadeep Shrestha
%A Staci L. Sudenga
%A Yuanfan Ye
%J Archive of "Papillomavirus Research".
%D 2019
%R 10.1016/j.pvr.2018.08.001
%X While most human papillomavirus (HPV) infection clears on its own, persistent HPV infection can cause genital warts and anal, penile and oropharyngeal cancers in men. We conducted genetic analysis in a sub-cohort of the HPV infection in men (HIM) study to test the hypothesis that differences in host genes influence HPV persistence in men
%K HPV in men
%K HPV persistence
%K Immunogenetics
%U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6290760/