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Polymorphic APOBEC3 modulates chronic hepatitis B in Moroccan population.
Journal of viral hepatitis - 1 Oct 2013
Ezzikouri S, Kitab B, Rebbani K, Marchio A, Wain-Hobson S, Dejean A, Vartanian J-P, Pineau P, Benjelloun S
Abstract excerpt
The cytidine deaminase apolipoprotein B mRNA editing catalytic subunit-3 (APOBEC3) induces G-to-A hypermutation in hepatitis B virus (HBV) genomes and operates as part of the innate antiviral immune system. We investigated the associations between the presence of APOBEC3 variants and HBV carriage in a case-control study in the Moroccan population. A polymorphic deletion affecting the APOBEC3B gene and the H186R...
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