Association of killer cell immunoglobulin-like receptor polymorphisms with chronic hepatitis C and responses to therapy in Brazil

Soroprevalence for Hepatitis C virus is reported as 2.12% in Northern Brazil, with about 50% of the patients exhibiting a sustained virological response (SVR). Aiming to associate polymorphisms in Killer Cell Immunoglobulin-like Receptors (KIR) with chronic hepatitis C and therapy responses we inves...

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Main Authors: Janaina Mota de Vasconcelos, Lizomar de Jesus Maués Pereira Móia, Ivanete do Socorro Abraçado Amaral, Esther Castello Branco Mello Miranda, Louise Yukari CicaliseTakeshita, Layanna Freitas de Oliveira, Lilian de Araújo Melo Mendes, Danuta Sastre, Bruna Pedroso Tamegão-Lopes, Larysse Santa Rosa de Aquino Pedroza, Sidney Emanuel Batista dos Santos, Manoel do Carmo Pereira Soares, Marialva Tereza Ferreira de Araújo, Camila Lucas Bandeira, Adriana Maria Paixão de Sousa da Silva, Zilene Lameira de Medeiros, Leonardo Sena, Samia Demachki, Eduardo José Melo dos Santos
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Genética 2013-01-01
Series:Genetics and Molecular Biology
Subjects:
HCV
KIR
Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1415-47572013000100004