Sentences with phrase «cervical cell sample»
HPV is detected using a DNA analysis that looks for characteristic sequences from the 13 high risk strains of the virus in the cervical cell sample.
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The test aims to detect and prevent the progression of HPV - induced cervical cancer and other abnormalities in the female genital tract by sampling cells from the outer opening of the cervix of the uterus and the endocervix.
To address this gap in knowledge, Mirabello and Schiffman teamed up with co-senior author Robert Burk of Albert Einstein College of Medicine to sequence the whole genomes of 5,570 HPV16 - infected cell and tissue samples from women around the world and to identify associations between HPV16 genetic variants and the risk of cervical precancer and cancer.