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Association of HLA alleles with hepatitis C infection in Maharashtra, western India.
The Indian journal of medical research - 1 Nov 2009
Tripathy Anuradha S, Shankarkumar U, Chadha Mandeep S, Ghosh Kanjashkya, Arankalle Vidya A
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVE: Host genetic diversity is believed to contribute to the spectrum of clinical outcomes in hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection. The present study aimed at finding out the frequencies of HLA class I and class II alleles of HCV infected individuals from western India. METHODS: Forty three clinically characterized anti-HCV positive patients from Maharashtra were studied for HLA A, B, C, DRB1 and...
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