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Variants in ABCB1, TGFB1, and XRCC1 genes and susceptibility to viral hepatitis A infection in Mexican Americans.
Hepatology (Baltimore, Md.) - 1 Apr 2012
Zhang Lyna, Yesupriya Ajay, Hu Dale J, Chang Man-Huei, Dowling Nicole F, Ned Renée M, Udhayakumar Venkatachalam, Lindegren Mary Lou, Khudyakov Yury
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UNLABELLED: Hepatitis A vaccination has dramatically reduced the incidence of hepatitis A virus (HAV) infection, but new infections continue to occur. To identify human genetic variants conferring a risk for HAV infection among the three major racial/ethnic populations in the United States, we assessed associations between 67 genetic variants (single nucleotide polymorphisms [SNPs]) among 31 candidate genes and...
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