We were able to replicate three SNPs in PAX8 (rs10175462), CLPTM1L (rs27069), and HLA-DQA1 (rs9272050) in an independent Finnish dataset of 4246 cervical dysplasia cases, 298 CIN3 cases, and 1648 cervical cancer cases (FinnGen). Here, PAX8 is linked to cervical intraepithelial neoplasia.