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The IL-10 promoter polymorphism at position -592 is correlated with susceptibility to occult HBV infection.
Inflammation - 1 Jun 2012
Ahmadabadi Behzad Nasiri, Hassanshahi Gholamhossein, Arababadi Mohammad Kazemi, Leanza Cristiana, Kennedy Derek
Abstract excerpt
Occult hepatitis B infection (OBI) is characterized as a form of hepatitis in which detectable amounts of HBV-DNA can be monitored in the peripheral blood of patients whereas the hepatitis B surface antigen is undetectable. The main aim of this study was to investigate whether there is a relationship between OBI and single nucleotide polymorphisms in the -592 region of the IL-10 gene. In this study, the...
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