Assessment of viral methylation levels for high risk HPV types by newly designed consensus primers PCR and pyrosequencing

• Anna Gillio-Tos ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: gilliotos.demarco@cpo.it

  Affiliation Cancer Epidemiology Unit–C.E.R.M.S, Department of Medical Sciences, University of Turin, Turin, Italy

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6553-5362

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• Valentina Fiano,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Cancer Epidemiology Unit–C.E.R.M.S, Department of Medical Sciences, University of Turin, Turin, Italy

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• Chiara Grasso,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization

  Affiliation Cancer Epidemiology Unit–C.E.R.M.S, Department of Medical Sciences, University of Turin, Turin, Italy

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• Morena Trevisan,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization

  Affiliation Cancer Epidemiology Unit–C.E.R.M.S, Department of Medical Sciences, University of Turin, Turin, Italy

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• Silvia Gori,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Immunology and Diagnostic Molecular Oncology Unit, Veneto Institute of Oncology IOV IRCCS, Padua, Italy

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• Alessandra Mongia,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Regional Cancer Prevention Laboratory—Oncological Network, Prevention and Research Institute (ISPRO), Florence, Italy

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• Laura De Marco ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Laura De Marco, Guglielmo Ronco

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Cancer Epidemiology–CERMS, City of Health and Science Hospital and CPO, Turin, Italy

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• Guglielmo Ronco ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Laura De Marco, Guglielmo Ronco

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centre for Oncologic Prevention, Turin, Italy

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• and the New Technologies for Cervical Cancer Screening (NTCC) Working Group

  ¶The complete membership of the New Technologies for Cervical Cancer Screening (NTCC) Working Group is provided in the Acknowledgments.

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