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IL28B rs 12979860 predicts response to treatment in Egyptian hepatitis C virus genotype 4 patients and alpha fetoprotein increases its predictive strength.
Journal of interferon & cytokine research : the official journal of the International Society for Interferon and Cytokine Research - 1 Jul 2014
Youssef Samar Samir, Abbas Eman Abd El-Razek, Mostafa Asmaa, Omran Moataza Hassan, Barakat Ahmed, Seif Sameh Mohamed
Abstract excerpt
To assess the role of IL28B rs 12979860 polymorphism in predicting response to treatment in genotype 4 (G4) Egyptian patients, and to evaluate the role of alpha fetoprotein (AFP) in increasing the predictive strength of IL28B rs 12979860 polymorphism to predict response to treatment. One hundred thirty 7 HCV patients were genotyped for IL28B rs 12979860 by polymerase chain reaction--restriction fragment length...
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