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Hemophilic siblings with chronic hepatitis C: Familial aggregation of spontaneous and treatment-related viral clearance.
Gastroenterology - 1 Sept 2006
Fried Michael W, Kroner Barbara L, Preiss Liliana R, Wilhelmsen Kirk, Goedert James J
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BACKGROUND & AIMS: Hemophilic siblings provide a unique population to explore the natural history of chronic hepatitis C. METHODS: From 3993 hemophilic patients with hepatitis C, 257 sibling pairs, of which both members had evidence of hepatitis C infection, were studied to evaluate the genetic contribution to spontaneous and treatment-induced clearance of hepatitis C infection and progression of liver disease....
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