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High prevalence and mapping of pre-S deletion in hepatitis B virus carriers with progressive liver diseases.
Gastroenterology - 1 Apr 2006
Chen Bing-Fang, Liu Chun-Jen, Jow Guey-Mei, Chen Pei-Jer, Kao Jia-Horng, Chen Ding-Shinn
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BACKGROUND & AIMS: The interactions among pre-S deletion, precore (PC) mutation, and basal core promoter (BCP) mutation in various stages of chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection remain unclear and were thus investigated in this study. METHODS: The sequences of the pre-S region and the BCP (A...
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