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ABSTRACT:
ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens
SUBMITTER: Francesco Marincola
PROVIDER: E-GEOD-17952 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
Pos Zoltan Z Selleri Silvia S Spivey Tara L TL Wang Jeanne K JK Liu Hui H Worschech Andrea A Sabatino Marianna M Monaco Alessandro A Leitman Susan F SF Falus Andras A Wang Ena E Alter Harvey J HJ Marincola Francesco M FM
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20091222 2
Limited responsiveness to IFN-alpha in hepatitis C virus (HCV)-infected African-Americans compared to European Americans (AAs vs. EAs) hinders the management of HCV. Here, we studied healthy non-HCV-infected AA and EA subjects to test whether immune cell response to IFN-alpha is determined directly by race. We compared baseline and IFN-alpha-induced signal transducer and activator of transcription (STAT)-1, STAT-2, STAT-3, STAT-4, and STAT-5 protein and phosphorylation levels in purified T cells ...[more]