Journal:
:hepatitis monthly
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jie fan department of epidemiology, school of public health and management, research center for medicine and social development, innovation center for social risk governance in health, chongqing medical university, chongqing, china
xin huang department of epidemiology, school of public health and management, research center for medicine and social development, innovation center for social risk governance in health, chongqing medical university, chongqing, china
juan chen key laboratory of molecular biology for infectious diseases, institute for viral hepatitis, department of infectious diseases, the second affiliated hospital, chongqing medical university, chongqing, china
yiling cai obstetrics and gynecology department, chengdu women and children’s central hospital, sichuan province, china
lin xiong maternal and child health hospital of chongqing yuzhong district, chongqing, china
lihong mu department of epidemiology, school of public health and management, research center for medicine and social development, innovation center for social risk governance in health, chongqing medical university, chongqing, china; research center for medicine and social development, innovation center for social risk governance in health, school of public health and management, chongqing medical university, chongqing, china. tel/fax: +86-2368485008
background hepatitis b virus (hbv) infection is a serious public health problem in china and worldwide. mother-to-child transmission is one of hbv’s main transmission routes in highly endemic regions. genome-wide association studies (gwas) identify single nucleotide polymorphisms (snps) at hla loci as associated with hbv infection. however, the mechanisms of hbv perinatal transmission and break...