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Predicting cirrhosis and clinical outcomes in patients with advanced chronic hepatitis C with a panel of genetic markers (CRS7).
Pharmacogenetics and genomics - 1 Dec 2011
Curto Teresa M, Lagier Robert J, Lok Anna S, Everhart James E, Rowland Charles M, Sninsky John J
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OBJECTIVES: Genetic factors may play a role in fibrosis progression in patients with chronic hepatitis C (CHC). A cirrhosis risk score (CRS7) with seven single nucleotide polymorphisms was previously shown to correlate with cirrhosis in patients with CHC. This study aimed to assess the validity of CRS7 as a marker of fibrosis progression and cirrhosis and as a predictor of clinical outcomes in patients with CHC....
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