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Polymorphisms at IL28B gene as predictors of viral relapse in genotype 4 Egyptian hepatitis C patients.
Journal of medical virology - 1 Mar 2016
Esmail Mona Abdelmonem, Hassuna Noha A, Amr Khalda Sayed, Ghazawy Eman Ramadan, Abdel-Hamid Mohamed
Abstract excerpt
Chronic HCV is one of the commonest causes of chronic liver disease worldwide with about 15% of population infected in Egypt. Certain single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) lying near the IL28B gene were found to affect the spontaneous clearance as well as treatment outcome of HCV. To examine the association between different IL28B variants and the relapse of HCV infection after combined therapy with ribavirin...
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