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Association of HLA class II alleles with hepatitis C virus clearance and persistence in thalassemia patients from Iran.
Journal of medical virology - 1 Sept 2015
Samimi-Rad Katayoun, Sadeghi Farzin, Amirzargar Aliakbar, Eshraghian Mohamad Reza, Alavian Seyed-Moayed, Rahimnia Ramin
Abstract excerpt
There is no published data on association of HLA class II alleles with clearance or persistence after acute hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection in patients from Iran. HLA DRB1, DQA1, and DQB1 alleles were determined using polymerase chain reaction amplification with sequence specific primers (PCR-SSP) on a total of 117 thalassemia patients (63 with chronic infection, and 54 with viral clearance) and 120 healthy...
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