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Interleukin- 28B: a prognostic marker in interferon based therapy of chronic HCV patients of the Pakistan with variable treatment response.
APMIS : acta pathologica, microbiologica, et immunologica Scandinavica - 1 Sept 2015
Resham Saleha, Manzoor Sobia, Imran Muhammad, Saalim Muhammad, Naseem Sidrah, Azam Sikandar
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Unfortunately Pakistan carries one of the world's highest burdens of chronic hepatitis along with mortality due to liver failure and hepatocellular carcinoma. Scientists after extensive research have come up with this outcome that host genetics play a vital role in dictating the type of treatment response produced by the patients. In 2009, a genome wide association study (GWAS) revealed that genetic variants in...
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