PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Donaldson, Y K
AU  - Arends, M J
AU  - Duvall, E
AU  - Bird, C C
TI  - PCR analysis of the upstream regulatory region of human papillomavirus genomes in cervical intraepithelial neoplasia and cervical carcinoma.
AID  - 10.1136/jcp.46.11.1021
DP  - 1993 Nov 01
TA  - Journal of Clinical Pathology
PG  - 1021--1023
VI  - 46
IP  - 11
4099  - http://jcp.bmj.com/content/46/11/1021.short
4100  - http://jcp.bmj.com/content/46/11/1021.full
SO  - J Clin Pathol1993 Nov 01; 46
AB  - AIMS--To test whether human papillomavirus (HPV) variants with large scale sequence alterations to the upstream regulatory region are present in cervical intraepithelial neoplasias (CIN) and cervical carcinomas. METHODS--New PCR based assays were designed specifically to detect large scale insertion/deletion alterations in the upstream regulatory region of HPV 16 and 18. The assays were applied to 24 cases of CIN and 34 cases of cervical carcinoma previously shown to contain these two high risk HPV types. RESULTS--No large scale sequence alterations were found in any of the HPV containing CIN or carcinomas. CONCLUSIONS--These negative findings suggest that major upstream regulatory region variants of HPV 16 and 18 do not contribute to most cervical neoplasms.