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Host genetics of HCV disease — IL28B
Co-infections with HCV and HIV are common, because both viruses share routes of transmission and establish chronic infections. The standard treatment for chronic hepatitis C, a combination of peginterferon-a and ribavirin, is poorly tolerated and only successful in about half of the treated patients. Thus, identification of accurate predictors of treatment response is highly desirable. Several ...
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Latin America is a diverse region with more than 500million people and approximately 8 million HCV infected individuals. The recent description of genetic polymorphisms associated to the interleukin 28B gene that predicts the response to treatment in these patients has impacted the clinical algorithms of management. In this review we examine the studies of prevalence of the IL28B genotypes in t...
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Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in the epidermal growth factor (EGF, rs4444903), patatin-like phospholipase domain-containing protein 3 (PNPLA3, rs738409) genes, and near the interleukin-28B (IL28B, rs12979860) gene are linked to treatment response, fibrosis, and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) in chronic hepatitis C. Whether these SNPs independently or in combination predict clinical det...
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متن کاملIL28B rs12979860 gene polymorphism in Egyptian patients with chronic liver disease infected with HCV.
BACKGROUND Egypt has one of the highest prevalences of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection worldwide. Although the IL28B gene polymorphism has been shown to modify the course of chronic HCV infection, this has not been properly assessed in the Egyptian population. MATERIALS AND METHODS The IL28B rs12979860 single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) was therefore examined in 256 HCV-infected Egyptian ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of the International AIDS Society
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1758-2652
DOI: 10.1186/1758-2652-13-s4-o30