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Genetic variation in interleukin 28B and correlation with chronic hepatitis B virus infection in Saudi Arabian patients.
Liver international : official journal of the International Association for the Study of the Liver - 1 Aug 2014
Al-Qahtani Ahmed A, Al-Anazi Mashael R, Abdo Ayman A, Sanai Faisal M, Al-Hamoudi Waleed K, Alswat Khalid A, Al-Ashgar Hamad I, Khalaf Nisreen Z, Viswan Nisha A, Al Ahdal Mohammed N
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND & AIMS: Several genome-wide association studies have shown that genetic variations in the chromosomal region containing interleukin-28B (IL28B) gene are associated with response to treatment in hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection. This study was conducted to examine the role of genetic variations in IL28B on disease progression in Saudi Arabian patients chronically infected with hepatitis B virus (HBV)....
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