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Tumor necrosis factor-α -G308A polymorphism is associated with liver pathological changes in hepatitis C virus patients.
World journal of gastroenterology - 14 Sept 2016
Bader El Din Noha G, Farouk Sally, El-Shenawy Reem, Ibrahim Marwa K, Dawood Reham M, Elhady Mostafa M, Salem Ahmed M, Zayed Naglaa, Khairy Ahmed, El Awady Mostafa K
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AIM: To investigate the association of tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNFα) -G308A polymorphism with different liver pathological changes in treatment-naïve Egyptian patients infected with hepatitis C virus (HCV) genotype 4. METHODS: This study included 180 subjects, composed of 120 treatment-naïve chronic HCV patients with different fibrosis grades (F0-F4) and 60 healthy controls. The TNFα -G308A region was...
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