1Chronic Viral Diseases Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta GA; 2University of Hawaii Cancer Center, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI; 3Community and Population Health Research Institute, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA; 4Michigan Cancer Surveillance Program, Michigan Department of Community Health, Lansing, MI; 5Department of Epidemiology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY; 6Los Angeles Cancer Registry, Los Angeles, CA; 7Florida Department of Health, Tallahassee, FL; 8Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, School of Public Health, New Orleans, LA; 9Department of Epidemiology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA; 10College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL; 11Battelle Memorial Institute, Durham, NC; and 12Epidemiology and Applied Research Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta GA
Reprint requests to: Martin Steinau, PhD, Chronic Viral Diseases Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Rd, MS G41 Atlanta, GA 30333. E-mail: [email protected]
The support for collection of original specimens from nonrepositories (Kentucky, Florida, Michigan, and Louisiana), coordination of genotyping data from both SEER and NPCR registries, and genotyping was largely supported by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) intramural funds and Vaccine For Children Funds. This project has been supported in part with Federal funds by the CDC under grant number NO. 5U58DP000810-5 (Kentucky), 5U58DP000844-5 (Florida), 5U58DP000812-5 (Michigan), and 5U58DP000769-5 (Louisiana) and with Federal funds for Residual Tissue Repositories from the National Cancer Institute SEER Population-based Registry Program, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, under contract no. N01-PC-35139 (Los Angeles), N01-PC-35143 (Iowa) and N01-PC-35137 (Hawaii).
The collection of data from California used in this publication was largely supported by the California Department of Health Services as part of the statewide cancer reporting program mandated by California Health and Safety Code Section 103885; by the National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services under contract no. N01-PC-2010-00035; and grant number 1U58DP000807-3 from the CDC.
The findings and conclusions in this report are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official position of the CDC.
