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Relationship of serological subtype, basic core promoter and precore mutations to genotypes/subgenotypes of hepatitis B virus.
Journal of medical virology - 1 Jan 2008
Kramvis Anna, Arakawa Kazuko, Yu Mimi C, Nogueira Ramon, Stram Daniel O, Kew Michael C
Abstract excerpt
Using phylogenetic analysis and pairwise comparison of 670 complete hepatitis B virus (HBV) genomes, we demonstrated that nucleotide divergence greater than 7.5% can be used to separate strains into genotypes A-H. Strains can be separated into subgenotypes when two criteria are met: nucleotide divergence of about 4% but less than 7.5% and good bootstrap support. There is a highly statistically significant...
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