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Frequency of interleukin 28B rs12979860 C>T variants in Filipino patients chronically infected with hepatitis B virus.
Molecular biology reports - 1 Mar 2015
Baclig Michael O, Reyes Karen G, Mapua Cynthia A, Gopez-Cervantes Juliet, Natividad Filipinas F
Abstract excerpt
Hepatitis B virus (HBV) is one of the most prevalent viral infections worldwide. Nearly 400 million individuals are chronic carriers of HBV. The aim of the present study was to determine the frequency of human interleukin 28B (IL28B) variants among treatment naive Filipino patients clinically diagnosed with chronic hepatitis B (CHB), and to compare the IL28B frequency distribution with various ethnic populations....
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