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Our inability to show an increase in X-chromosome skewing in females with autoimmunity does not eliminate this as an etiologic contributor to loss of immunologic tolerance.
It has been estimated that only 45-55% of breast cancer cases in the United States are explained by established risk factors such as income, reproductive factors, and family history [ 7 ] . Distinctive breast cancer incidence and mortality patterns in well-defined populations may therefore inform etiologic understanding.
Among the most important is the ability to assess the large majority of episodes of illness for which no etiologic agents are identified, either because good medical practice does not require that clinicians perform diagnostic tests, or because an unusual agent may fail to be detected by standard laboratory tests.
In addition, they can assess the very large number of cases of illness for which no etiologic diagnosis exists, and which are therefore typically not reportable.
Converging points of evidence implicate infection by high-risk human papilloma virus (HPV) types as a critical etiologic factor in cervical tumorigenesis [ 1 ] . Epidemiological and experimental data, however, show that only a small fraction of HPV-infected cervical intraepithelial neoplastic (CIN) lesions progress to invasive cervical carcinoma (CC) [ 2 ] . These findings suggest somatic genetic mutations play a critical role in the initiation and progression of CC.