Genetic variations in STAT4,C2,HLA-DRB1 and HLA-DQ associated with risk of hepatitis B virus-related liver cirrhosis

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Jiang, De Ke ^a,b,c,d   Ma, Xiao Pin ^a   Wu, Xiaopan ^e   Peng, Lijun ^a   Yin, Jianhua ^f   Dan, Yunjie ^g   Huang, Hui Xing ^a   Ding, Dong Lin ^a   Zhang, Lu Yao ^a   Shi, Zhuqing ^a,b   Zhang, Pengyin ^a,b   Yu, Hongjie ^a,b   Sun, Jielin ^c   Zheng, S Lilly ^c,d   Deng, Guohong ^g   Xu, Jianfeng ^a,b,c,d,h   Liu, Ying ^e   Guo, Jinsheng ^a   Cao, Guangwen ^f   Yu, Long ^a  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d NORTHSHORE UNIVERSITY HEALTHSYSTEM   (United States)

^e INSTITUTE OF BASIC MEDICAL SCIENCES   (China)

^f SECOND MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^g THIRD MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^h FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HLA DQ ANTIGEN; HLA DRB1 ANTIGEN; STAT4 PROTEIN; STAT4 PROTEIN, HUMAN;

CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHINA; CHRONIC HEPATITIS B; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HUMAN; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER TUMOR; MALE; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; PROCEDURES; RISK; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; VIROLOGY;

CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHINA; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HEPATITIS B, CHRONIC; HLA-DQ ANTIGENS; HLA-DRB1 CHAINS; HUMANS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; RISK; STAT4 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

EID: 84947093805     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep16278     Document Type: Article

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