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ArticleRevista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

An upward trend in DNA p16ink4a methylation pattern and high risk HPV infection according to the severity of the cervical lesion.

Fernanda Nahoum Carestiato, Larissa Alves Afonso, Natalia Moysés, Gutemberg Leão Almeida Filho, Luis Guillermo Coca Velarde, Silvia Maria Baeta Cavalcanti

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Article in Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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6 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 16 citations in OpenAlex.

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  6. Epigenetics and cervical cancer: from pathogenesis to therapy.Tumour biology : the journal of the International Society for Oncodevelopmental Biology and Medicine · 2014
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6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Fernanda Nahoum CarestiatoDepartamento de Microbiologia e Parasitologia, Universidade Federal Fluminense, NiteróiRio de Janeiro, Brasil.
Larissa Alves Afonso
Natalia Moysés
Gutemberg Leão Almeida Filho
Luis Guillermo Coca Velarde
Silvia Maria Baeta Cavalcanti
Universidade Federal Fluminense · BRUniversidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro · BR

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

High-risk human papillomavirus (hr-HPV) infection is necessary but not sufficient for cervical cancer development. Recently, P16INK4A gene silencing through hypermethylation has been proposed as an important cofactor in cervical carcinogenesis due to its tumor suppressor function. We aimed to investigate P16INK4A methylation status in normal and neoplastic epithelia and evaluate an association with HPV infection and genotype. This cross-sectional study was performed with 141 cervical samples from patients attending Hospital Moncorvo Filho, Rio de Janeiro. HPV detection and genotyping were performed through PCR and P16INK4A methylation by nested-methylation specific PCR (MSP). HPV frequency was 62.4% (88/141). The most common HPV were HPV16 (37%), HPV18 (16.3%) and HPV33/45(15.2%). An upward trend was observed concerning P16INK4A methylation and lesion degree: normal epithelia (10.7%), low grade lesions (22.9%), high grade (57.1%) and carcinoma (93.1%) (p < 0.0001). A multivariate analysis was performed to evaluate an association between methylation, age, tobacco exposure, HPV infection and genotyping. A correlation was found concerning methylation with HPV infection (p < 0.0001), hr-HPV (p = 0.01), HSIL (p < 0.0007) and malignant lesions (p < 0.0001). Since viral infection and epigenetic alterations are related to cervical carcinoma, we suggest that P16INK4A methylation profile maybe thoroughly investigated as a biomarker to identify patients at risk of cancer.

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AdultAgedAged, 80 and overCell Transformation, NeoplasticCross-Sectional StudiesCyclin-Dependent Kinase Inhibitor p16DNA MethylationDNA, ViralFemaleGenotypeHumansMiddle AgedPapillomavirus InfectionsPolymerase Chain ReactionPrecancerous ConditionsSeverity of Illness IndexCyclin-Dependent Kinase Inhibitor p16DNA, Viral

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