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SUBMITTER: Truelove AL
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2874896 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Truelove Ann L AL Oleksyk Taras K TK Shrestha Sadeep S Thio Chloe L CL Goedert James J JJ Donfield Sharyne M SM Kirk Gregory D GD Thomas David L DL O'Brien Stephen J SJ Smith Michael W MW
International journal of immunogenetics 20080601 3
Hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection remains a serious global health problem despite the availability of a highly effective vaccine. Approximately 5% of HBV-infected adults develop chronic hepatitis B, which may result in liver cirrhosis or hepatocellular carcinoma. Variants of interleukin-10 (IL10) have been previously associated with chronic hepatitis B infection and progression to hepatocellular carcinoma. Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP; n = 42) from the IL10, IL19 and IL20 gene regions we ...[more]