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Advances in the genome-wide association study of chronic hepatitis B susceptibility in Asian population.
European journal of medical research - 28 Dec 2017
Qiu Bing, Jiang Wei, Olyaee Mojtaba, Shimura Kenji, Miyakawa Akihiro, Hu Huijing, Zhu Yongcui, Tang Lixin
Abstract excerpt
Chronic hepatitis B (CHB) is the most common chronic liver disease resulting from viral infection and has become a serious threat to human health. Each year, about 1.2 million people in the world die from diseases caused by chronic infection of hepatitis B virus. The genetic polymorphism is significantly associated with the susceptibility to chronic hepatitis B. Genome-wide association study was recently...
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