Personalized Genetic Testing and Norovirus Susceptibility
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Personalized genetic testing and norovirus susceptibility
BACKGROUND The availability of direct-to-consumer personalized genetic testing has enabled the public to access and interpret their own genetic information. Various genetic traits can be determined including resistance to norovirus through a nonsense mutation (G428A) in the FUT2 gene. Although this trait is believed to confer resistance to the most dominant norovirus genotype (GII.4), the spect...
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عنوان ژورنال: Canadian Journal of Infectious Diseases and Medical Microbiology
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1712-9532
DOI: 10.1155/2014/708579