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Relationship between interleukin-6 polymorphism and susceptibility to chronic hepatitis B virus infection.
World journal of gastroenterology - 28 Oct 2013
Zhao Xiao-Miao, Gao Yu-Feng, Zhou Qin, Pan Fa-Ming, Li Xu
Abstract excerpt
AIM: To identify the relationship between tag single nucleotide polymorphisms (tag SNPs) of interleukin-6 (IL-6) gene and susceptibility to chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection in a Han Chinese population. METHODS: We performed a case-control study of 501 Chinese patients with chronic HBV infection and 301 self-limiting HBV-infected individuals as controls. Genomic DNA was isolated from the whole blood of...
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