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IL28B SNP rs8099917 is strongly associated with pegylated interferon-α and ribavirin therapy treatment failure in HCV/HIV-1 coinfected patients.
PloS one - 29 Oct 2010
Aparicio Ester, Parera Mariona, Franco Sandra, Pérez-Alvarez Nuria, Tural Cristina, Clotet Bonaventura, Martínez Miguel Angel
Abstract excerpt
Recent genome-wide association studies report that the SNP rs8099917, located 8.9 kb upstream of the start codon of IL28B, is associated with both disease chronicity and therapeutic response to pegIFN-α and RBV in patients infected with genotype 1 HCV. To determine the effect of rs8099917 variati...
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