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SUBMITTER: Qiu B
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5745855 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Qiu Bing B Jiang Wei W Olyaee Mojtaba M Shimura Kenji K Miyakawa Akihiro A Hu Huijing H Zhu Yongcui Y Tang Lixin L
European journal of medical research 20171228 1
Chronic hepatitis B (CHB) is the most common chronic liver disease resulting from viral infection and has become a serious threat to human health. Each year, about 1.2 million people in the world die from diseases caused by chronic infection of hepatitis B virus. The genetic polymorphism is significantly associated with the susceptibility to chronic hepatitis B. Genome-wide association study was recently developed and has become an important tool to detect susceptibility genes of CHB. To date, a ...[more]