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Nucleotide divergences in the core promoter and precore region of genotype D hepatitis B virus in patients with persistently elevated or normal ALT levels.
Journal of clinical virology : the official publication of the Pan American Society for Clinical Virology - 1 Apr 2001
Bozdayi A M, Bozkaya H, Türkyilmaz A R, Sarýodlu M, Cetinkaya H, Karayalçin S, Yurdaydin C, Uzunalimoğlu O
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Mutation in the hepatitis B virus precore codon 28, creating a translational stop codon and double 1762-1764 T/A mutations in the core promoter region, controlling the transcription of the precore RNA and the core RNA have been suggested to correlate with the HBeAg status of patients with HBV infection. OBJECTIVES: The aim of the study was to further investigate the association of nucleotide...
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