Thus, women from Taiwan, Thailand, Korea, Japan, China, and Hong-Kong show no association between TP53 72Arg/Pro polymorphism and HPV-associated and HPV-non-associated cervical cancer (Nishikawa et al., 2000; Settheetham-Ishida et al., 2004; Wu et al., 2004 and others). The gene discussed is TP53; the disease is cervical carcinoma.