Tracing hepatitis B virus to the 16th century in a Korean mummy

Hepatology

Volumn 56, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1671-1680

  Kahila Bar Gal, Gila ^a   Kim, Myeung Ju ^b   Klein, Athalia ^c   Shin, Dong Hoon ^d   Oh, Chang Seok ^d   Kim, Jong Wan ^b   Kim, Tae Hyun ^e   Kim, Seok Bae ^b   Grant, Paul R ^f   Pappo, Orit ^c   Spigelman, Mark ^a,f   Shouval, Daniel ^c  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b Dankook University   (South Korea)

^c HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^d Seoul National University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^e BK21 Plus NBM Global Research Center for Regenerative Medicine   (South Korea)

^f UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS DNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HUMAN; KOREA; LAPAROSCOPY; LIVER BIOPSY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PALEOPATHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIRUS GENE;

ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CHILD; DNA, VIRAL; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME, VIRAL; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HEPATITIS B, CHRONIC; HISTORY, 16TH CENTURY; HUMANS; KOREA; MUMMIES; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84868200111     PISSN: 02709139     EISSN: 15273350     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hep.25852     Document Type: Article

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