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Evolutionary perspective on hepatitis B virus with an expanded sampling strategy.
Virus research - 26 Dec 2013
He Jun-Dong, Gao Jian-Mei, Shen Tao, Murphy Robert W, Yan Xin-Min
Abstract excerpt
To investigate the role hepatitis B e antigen (HBeAg) plays in the evolution of hepatitis B virus (HBV), we sequenced the basic core promoter (BCP) and precore (preC) regions of 348 clones total from ten HBV Chinese patients. Eleven mutations were more frequent in HBeAg-negative patients than in HBeAg-positive patients. Further, the sequencing of dozens of variants was found to be necessary to obtain mutation...
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