Effect of functional interleukin-10 polymorphism on pegylated interferon-α plus ribavirin therapy response in chronic hepatitis C virus patients infected with 3a genotype in pakistani population

Hepatitis Monthly

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Afzal, Muhammad Sohail ^a   Anjum, Sadia ^a   Zaidi, Najam us Sahar Sadaf ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 10; PEGINTERFERON ALPHA; RIBAVIRIN;

CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DNA POLYMORPHISM; EPISTASIS; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPE; HEPATITIS C; HEREDITY; HUMAN; LETTER; PAKISTAN; TH1 TH2 BALANCE; VIRUS LOAD;

EID: 84878964403     PISSN: 1735143X     EISSN: 17353408     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5812/hepatmon.10274     Document Type: Letter

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