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Mutation at codon 130 in hepatitis B virus (HBV) core region increases markedly during acute exacerbation of hepatitis in chronic HBV carriers.
Journal of gastroenterology - 1 Feb 2001
Okumura A, Ishikawa T, Yoshioka K, Yuasa R, Fukuzawa Y, Kakumu S
Abstract excerpt
Mutations within T-cell or B-cell epitopes are suggested to have some influence on the clinical course of chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection. To investigate the relationship between liver cell injury and heterogeneity of the HBV core gene, we focused on the sequence of codon 130, which is located on both T- and B-cell epitopes, and serially analyzed the proportion of mutant virus (core130Thr) to wild-type...
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