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Precore and core promoter mutants are associated with higher HBeAg seroconversion but low disease remission rates in HBV patients treated with nucleos(t)ide analogues.
Journal of viral hepatitis - 1 May 2013
Zoutendijk R, Sonneveld M J, Reijnders J G P, van Vuuren A J, Biesta P, Hansen B E, Boonstra A, Janssen H L A
Abstract excerpt
HBeAg seroconversion in HBV patients is considered an important event. We determined precore (PC) and base core promoter (BCP) mutations in 137 HBeAg-positive nucleos(t)ide analogues (NA) treated patients by INNO-LiPA HBV PreCore assay (Innogenetics). The majority of patients with nongenotype A had PC/BCP mutants present at baseline (P = 0.02). During 29 months of therapy, 45 patients achieved HBeAg...
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