Advances in the genome-wide association study of chronic hepatitis B susceptibility in Asian population

Abstract Chronic hepatitis B (CHB) is the most common chronic liver disease resulting from viral infection and has become a serious threat to human health. Each year, about 1.2 million people in the world die from diseases caused by chronic infection of hepatitis B virus. The genetic polymorphism is...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Bing Qiu, Wei Jiang, Mojtaba Olyaee, Kenji Shimura, Akihiro Miyakawa, Huijing Hu, Yongcui Zhu, Lixin Tang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2017-12-01
Series:European Journal of Medical Research
Subjects:
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40001-017-0288-3