Genetic Variation in the Interleukin-28B Gene Is Associated with Spontaneous Clearance and Progression of Hepatitis C Virus in Moroccan Patients

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Ezzikouri, Sayeh ^a   Alaoui, Rhimou ^b   Rebbani, Khadija ^a   Brahim, Ikram ^a   Fakhir, Fatima Zohra ^a   Nadir, Salwa ^b   Diepolder, Helmut ^c   Khakoo, Salim I ^d   Thursz, Mark ^e   Benjelloun, Soumaya ^a  

^a Institut Pasteur du Maroc   (Morocco)

^b IBN ROCHD UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Morocco)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^e IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYSTEINE; INTERLEUKIN 28B; THREONINE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALLELE; ARTICLE; CHRONIC HEPATITIS; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCATION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; INTERLEUKIN 28B GENE; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOROCCO; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; VIRAL CLEARANCE; VIRUS LOAD;

AGED; ALLELES; BASE SEQUENCE; COHORT STUDIES; DNA PRIMERS; FEMALE; HEPATITIS C; HUMANS; INTERLEUKINS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOROCCO; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

HEPATITIS C VIRUS;

EID: 84872844470     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0054793     Document Type: Article

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