Article
No association between IRF3 polymorphism and susceptibility to hepatitis B virus infection in Chinese patients.
World journal of gastroenterology - 28 Jan 2012
Yan Fang, Gao Yu-Feng, Lv Feng, Zhang Tian-Chen, Li Xu, Yin Hua-Fa
Abstract excerpt
AIM: To investigate the association between three tag single nucleotide polymorphisms (tagSNPs) in interferon regulatory factors (IRF3) and the genetic susceptibility to chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection. METHODS: We performed a case-control study of 985 Chinese cases of chronic HBV infec...
Topics
- Adult
- Asian People
- Case-Control Studies
- Disease Susceptibility
- Female
- Gene Frequency
- Genotype
- Hepatitis B
- Hepatitis B, Chronic
- Humans
- Interferon Regulatory Factor-3
- Male
