Sequence Variation Upstream of Precore Translation Initiation Codon Reduces Hepatitis B Virus e Antigen Production

Gastroenterology

Volumn 125, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1370-1378

  Ahn, Sang Hoon ^a   Kramvis, Anna ^b   Kawai, Shigenobu ^a   Spangenberg, Hans Christian ^a   Li, Jisu ^a   Kimbi, Gerald ^b   Kew, Michael ^b   Wands, Jack ^a   Tong, Shuping ^a,c  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^c Liver Research Center Brown University Medical School   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORE PROTEIN; HEPATITIS B(E) ANTIBODY; HEPATITIS B(E) ANTIGEN;

ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORE GENE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NEGRO; NONHUMAN; POINT MUTATION; PRECORE TRANSLATION INITIATION CODON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEROCONVERSION; SOUTH AFRICA; START CODON; VIRUS CORE; VIRUS CULTURE; VIRUS GENE; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS MUTATION; VIRUS REPLICATION; VIRUS STRAIN;

EID: 0242574501     PISSN: 00165085     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gastro.2003.07.016     Document Type: Article

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