Susceptibility to HPV infection or cervical cancer and precancerous lesion development was associated with the HLA class II: HLA-DRB1 alleles [34, 39–51]; HLA-DQB1 alleles [34, 39, 46, 49–51]; HLA-DPB1 alleles [51]; and classes I and II haplotypes [30, 34, 40–42, 48, 52, 53]. The gene discussed is HLA-DRB1; the disease is cervical cancer.