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Table 4. Comparison between women without cervical lesions and women with different degrees of cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN), in relation to the frequency of micronuclei.

Factor	Sample (n)	Micronucleus frequency (mean ± SD)
No lesion	35	1.3 ± 1.4
Metaplasia^*	10	7.2 ± 9.6
CIN I^†	25	4.3 ± 4.3
CIN II^*	16	10.6 ± 5.3
CIN III^*	15	22.7 ± 11.9

P < 0.001 and

^†

P < 0.05 versus no lesion; SD = standard deviation.