Abstract
Renal-transplant recipients have a marked increase of viral warts, premalignant actinic keratoses, and skin cancers.1 , 2 Both cutaneous and cervical squamous-cell carcinomas are associated with human papillomavirus.3 4 5 We compared patients who had skin cancer potentially related to papillomavirus with nonimmunosuppressed patients, in whom there is a negative association between HLA-A11 and virus-related carcinoma of the cervix.6 We also investigated the HLA-associated susceptibility of renal-transplant recipients to skin cancer for other HLA alleles.