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A Newly Identified Natural Splice Variant ASN Enhances Hepatitis B Virus Amplification.
Viral immunology - 1 Jan 2000
Zhang Xiumin, Zhu Sibo, Zhu Wei, Li Aijun, Zhu Naishuo
Abstract excerpt
Chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection causes approximately one-third of all the cases of liver cirrhosis and more than three-quarters of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) worldwide. There are eight different genotypes (A-H) of HBV, among which B and C are the major types of HBV in China. There is a positive correlation between viral load and level of viral splicing variants and the high risk of HCC. The aim of...
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