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Association between polymorphisms in OAS2 and CD209 genes and predisposition to chronic hepatitis C in Russian population.
Microbes and infection - 1 May 2014
Barkhash Andrey V, Kochneva Galina V, Chub Elena V, Mikhailova Svetlana V, Romaschenko Aida G
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Chronic hepatitis C is a severe liver disease caused by positive-strand RNA virus. Previously, we reported an association between seven single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in four innate immunity genes (OAS2, OAS3, CD209, and TLR3) and human predisposition to tick-borne encephalitis, caused by a virus from the same Flaviviridae family, in a Russian population. Currently, genotype and allele frequencies for...
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