Article
Dynamics of genome change in the E2/NS1 region of hepatitis C virus in vivo.
Virology - 1 Dec 1993
Higashi Y, Kakumu S, Yoshioka K, Wakita T, Mizokami M, Ohba K, Ito Y, Ishikawa T, Takayanagi M, Nagai Y
Abstract excerpt
To substantiate and extend the quasispecies model of hepatitis C virus (HCV), we made a pairwise comparison in the nucleotide and deduced amino acid sequences for multiple recombinant clones of the E2/NS1 region, which derived from each blood sample taken from five patients of subtype II or subtype III infection at different stages. Sequence heterogeneity among the clones was generally high. The heterogeneity,...
Topics
- Aged
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Chronic Disease
- Female
- Genes, Viral
- Genetic Variation
- Genome, Viral
- Hepatitis C
- Humans
- Male
- Middle Aged
- Models, Genetic
