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A trivial role of STAT4 variant in chronic hepatitis B induced hepatocellular carcinoma.
Infection, genetics and evolution : journal of molecular epidemiology and evolutionary genetics in infectious diseases - 1 Aug 2013
Clark Adam, Gerlach Franziska, Tong Hoang van, Hoan Nghiem Xuan, Song Le H, Toan Nguyen L, Bock C-Thomas, Kremsner Peter G, Velavan Thirumalaisamy P
Abstract excerpt
Two polymorphisms in the STAT4 and HLA-DQ loci were more recently reported to associate with chronic hepatitis B (CHB) induced hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). We utilised an independent Vietnamese cohort of clinically classified HBV patients of chronic hepatitis B carriers (n=206), liver cirrhosis (n=222) and hepatocellular carcinoma (n=239) and assessed the influence of the reported variants. The STAT4 variant...
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