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Association of exon 9 but not intron 8 VDR polymorphisms with occult HBV infection in south-eastern Iranian patients.
Journal of gastroenterology and hepatology - 1 Jan 2010
Arababadi Mohammad Kazemi, Pourfathollah Ali Akbar, Jafarzadeh Abdollah, Hassanshahi Gholamhossein, Rezvani Mohammad Ebrahim
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BACKGROUND AND AIM: Occult hepatitis B infection (OBI) is characterized as a form of hepatitis in which, despite the absence of detectable hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg), hepatitis B virus DNA (HBV-DNA) is present in a patient's peripheral blood. Investigators believe that divergent genetics...
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