Article
Mutations within the hepatitis B virus genome among chronic hepatitis B patients with hepatocellular carcinoma.
Journal of medical virology - 1 Sept 2003
Bläckberg Jonas, Kidd-Ljunggren Karin
Abstract excerpt
Chronic hepatitis B infection is a major cause of hepatocellular cancer (HCC). The pathogenesis of the carcinogenesis is not fully understood. Viral proteins such as the X protein and the truncated middle S protein have been implicated to be transactivators. In order to investigate whether any mutations within relevant parts of the hepatitis B virus (HBV) genome could be associated with the development of HCC,...
Topics
- Adult
- Aged
- Aged, 80 and over
- Carcinoma, Hepatocellular
- Female
- Genes, Viral
- Genome, Viral
- Genotype
- Hepatitis B virus
- Hepatitis B, Chronic
- Humans
- Male
