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Ho, G.Y.F., Bierman, R., Beardsley, L., C.J. Chang, and Burk, R.D. Natural history of cervicovaginal papillomavirus infection in young women. N. Engl. J. Med. 338:423-428, 1998.
PMID: 9459645
.
Schiffman, M., Herrero, R., DeSalle, R., Hildesheim, A., Wacholder, S., Rodríguez, A.C., Bratti, M.C., Sherman, M.E., Morales, J., Guillen, D., Alfaro, M., Hutchinson, M., Wright, T.C., Solomon, D., Chen, Z., Schussler, J., Castle, P.E. and Burk, R.D. The carcinogenicity of human papillomavirus types reflects viral evolution. Virology 337:76-84, 2005.
PMID: 15914222
.
Burk, R.D., Chen, Z. and Van Doorslaer, K. Human papillomaviruses: Genetic basis of carcinogenicity. Public Health Genomics. 12:281-290, 2009.
PMC2835381
.
Schiffman, M., Rodríguez, A.C., Chen, Z., Wacholder, S., Herrero, R., Hildesheim, A., Desalle, R., Befano, B., Yu, K., Safaeian, M., Sherman, M.E., Morales, J., Guillen, D., Alfaro, M., Hutchinson, M., Solomon, D., Castle, P.E. and Burk, R.D. A population-based prospective study of carcinogenic human papillomavirus variant lineages, viral persistence, and cervical neoplasia. Cancer Res. 70:3159-3169, 2010.
PMID: 20354192
.
Schiffman, M., Glass, A.G., Wentzensen, N., Rush, B.B., Castle, P.E., Scott, D.R., Buckland, J., Sherman, M.E., Rydzak, G., Kirk, P., Lorincz, A., Wacholder, S. and Burk, R.D. A Long-Term Prospective Study of Type-Specific Human Papillomavirus Infection and Risk of Cervical Neoplasia among 20,000 Women in the Portland Kaiser Cohort Study. Cancer Epidemiol. Biomarkers Prev. 20:3098-1409, 2011. PMID: 21602310;
PMC3156084
.
Burk, R.D., Harari, A. and Chen, Z. Human papillomavirus genome variants. Virology 445:232-243, 2013. PubMed PMID: 23998342;
PMC3979972
.
Van Doorslaer, K., DeSalle, R., Einstein, M.H. and Burk, R.D. Degradation of Human PDZ-proteins by Human Alphapapillomaviruses represents an evolutionary adaptation to a novel cellular niche. PLoS Pathog. 2015 Jun 18; 11(6):e1004980. doi:10.1371/journal.ppat.1004980. eCollection 2015 Jun.
PMID: 26086730
.
Agalliu, I., Gapstur, S., Chen, Z., Wang, T., Anderson, R.L., Teras, L., Kreimer, A.R., Hayes, R.B., Freedman, N.D., Burk, R.D. Associations of Oral α-, β-, and γ-Human Papillomavirus Types With Risk of Incident Head and Neck Cancer. JAMA Oncol. 2016 Jan 21. doi: 10.1001/jamaoncol.2015.5504.
PMID: 26794505
.
Cancer Genome Atlas Research Network. Integrated genomic and molecular characterization of cervical cancer. Nature 543:378-384, 2017. doi:10.1038/nature21386. PMID: 28112728;
PMC5354998
.
Mirabello. L., Yeager, M., Yu, K., Clifford, G.M., Xiao, Y., Zhu, B., Cullen, M., Boland, J.F., Wentzensen, N., Nelson, C.W., Raine-Bennett, T., Chen, Z., Bass, S., Song, L., Yang, Q., Steinberg, M., Burdett, L., Dean, M., Roberson, D., Mitchell, J., Lorey, T., Franceschi, S., Castle, P.E., Walker, J., Zuna, R., Kreimer, A.R., Beachler, D.C., Hildesheim, A., Gonzalez, P., Porras, C., Burk, R.D.
* (co-last author)
, Schiffman, M.
*
HPV16 E7 Genetic Conservation Is Critical to Carcinogenesis. Cell 170:1164-1174, 2017.
PMID: 28886384
.
Usyk, M., Zolnik, C.P., Patel, H., Levi, M.H. and Burk, R.D. Novel ITS1 Fungal Primers For Characterization Of The Mycobiome. mSphere. 2017 Dec 13;2(6). pii: e00488-17. doi: 10.1128/mSphere.00488-17. eCollection 2017 Nov-Dec. PMID:29242834;
PMC5729218
.
Mirabello, L., Clarke, M.A., Nelson, C.W., Dean, M., Wentzensen, N., Yeager, M., Cullen, M., Boland, J.F.; NCI HPV Workshop, Schiffman, M. and Burk, R.D. The Intersection of HPV Epidemiology, Genomics and Mechanistic Studies of HPV-Mediated Carcinogenesis. Viruses. 2018 Feb 13;10(2). doi: 10.3390/v10020080. PMID: 29438321;
PMC5850387
.
Chen, Z., DeSalle, R., Schiffman, M., Herrero, R., Wood, C.E., Ruiz, J.C., Clifford, G.M., Chan, P.K.S. and Burk, R.D. Niche adaptation and viral transmission of human papillomaviruses from archaic hominins to modern humans. PLoS Pathog. 2018, 14(11): e1007352. PMID: 30383862;
PMC6211759
.
Schlecht, N.F., Masika, M., Diaz, A., Nucci-Sack, A., Salandy, A., Pickering, S., Strickler, H.D., Shankar, V., Burk, R.D. Risk of Oral Human Papillomavirus Infection Among Sexually Active Female Adolescents Receiving the Quadrivalent Vaccine. JAMA Netw Open. 2019 Oct 2;2(10):e1914031. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2019.14031. PMID: 31651968;
PMC6822084
Kaplan, R.C., Wang, Z., Usyk, M., Sotres-Alvarez, D., Daviglus, M.L., Schneiderman, N., Talavera, G.A., Gellman, M.D., Thyagarajan, B., Moon, J-Y, Vasquez-Baeza, Y., McDonald, D., Williams-Nguyen, J.S., Wu, M.C., North, K.E. Shaffer, J., Sollecito, C.C., Qi, Q., Isasi, C.R., Wang, T., Knight, R. and Burk, R.D. Gut microbiome composition in the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos is shaped by geographic relocation, environmental factors and obesity. Genome Biol. 2019, 20(1):219. PMID: 31672155;
PMC6824043
.
Usyk, M., Zolnik, C.P., Castle, P.E., Porras, C., Herrero, R., Gradissimo, A., Gonzalez, P., Safaeian, M., Schiffman, M., Burk, R.D.; Costa Rica HPV Vaccine Trial (CVT) Group. Cervicovaginal microbiome and natural history of HPV in a longitudinal study. PLoS Pathog. 2020 Mar 26;16(3):e1008376. PMID: 32214382;
PMC7098574
.
Kurilshikov,
A. . . . Burk, R.D. . . . Zhernakova, A. Large-scale association analyses identify host factors influencing human gut microbiome composition. Nat. Genet. 53: 156-165, 2021. doi: 10.1038/s41588-020-00763-1;
PMID: 33462485
.