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ReviewPapillomavirus research (Amsterdam, Netherlands)2017

Mechanistic mathematical models: An underused platform for HPV research.

Marc D Ryser, Patti E Gravitt, Evan R Myers

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Review in Papillomavirus research (Amsterdam, Netherlands), 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed.

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  7. Recurring infection with ecologically distinct HPV types can explain high prevalence and diversity.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2017
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Marc D RyserDepartment of Surgery, Division of Advanced Oncologic and GI Surgery, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, USA; Department of Mathematics, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA. Electronic address: marc.ryser@duke.edu.
Patti E GravittDepartment of Global Health, Milken Institute School of Public Health, George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA.
Evan R MyersDepartment of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, USA.

Funding

The Mathematics of Breast Cancer Overtreatment: Improving Treatment Choice through Effective Communication of Personalized Cancer RiskK99CA207872 · NCI · DUKE UNIVERSITY · PI RYSER, MARC · 2016 to 2017
$318k
NCI NIH HHS K99 CA207872
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Health economic modeling has become an invaluable methodology for the design and evaluation of clinical and public health interventions against the human papillomavirus (HPV) and associated diseases. At the same time, relatively little attention has been paid to a different yet complementary class of models, namely that of mechanistic mathematical models. The primary focus of mechanistic mathematical models is to better understand the intricate biologic mechanisms and dynamics of disease. Inspired by a long and successful history of mechanistic modeling in other biomedical fields, we highlight several areas of HPV research where mechanistic models have the potential to advance the field. We argue that by building quantitative bridges between biologic mechanism and population level data, mechanistic mathematical models provide a unique platform to enable collaborations between experimentalists who collect data at different physical scales of the HPV infection process. Through such collaborations, mechanistic mathematical models can accelerate and enhance the investigation of HPV and related diseases.

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CarcinogenesisMathematical modelingMechanistic modelingMulti-scale modelingNatural historyViral evolution

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PMID28720456
PMCPMC5518640

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