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The influence of HLA alleles and HBV subgenotyes on the outcomes of HBV infections in Northeast China.
Virus research - 1 Jan 2012
Li Xingku, Liu Wei, Wang Hongyan, Jin Xi, Fang Shaohong, Shi Yuguang, Liu Zhen, Zhang Shuyun, Yang Shufen
Abstract excerpt
Hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection has a wide variety of clinical outcomes, it could be spontaneouly recovered and also could develop fulminant liver failure or cirrhosis with hepatocellular carcinoma. Human leukocyte antigen (HLA) polymorphism and HBV (sub)genotypes have been speculated to associate with the outcome of HBV infection because the data obtained from various populations who bear different HLA alleles...
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