Hepatitis Awareness Month: Role of Genomics

Last Posted: May 22, 2017

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• Phylogenetic analysis of an epidemic outbreak of acute hepatitis C in HIV-infected patients by ultra-deep pyrosequencing.  
  Caro-Pérez Noelia et al. Journal of clinical virology : the official publication of the Pan American Society for Clinical Virology 2017 May 42-47
• Impact of "a" Determinant Mutations on Detection of Hepatitis B Surface Antigen (HBsAg) in HBV Strains from Chinese Patients with Occult Hepatitis B.  
  Huang Xiangyan et al. Journal of medical virology 2017 May
• Genetic Polymorphisms Associated with Liver Disease Progression in HIV/HCV-Coinfected Patients.  
  Medrano Luz M et al. AIDS reviews (1) 3-15
• New Hepatitis C Infections Nearly Tripled Over Five Years 
• Viral and host factors associated with outcomes of hepatitis C virus infection (Review).  
  Yan Zehui et al. Molecular medicine reports 2017 May (5) 2909-2924
• Viral Hepatitis and Liver Cancer 
• Complete genome sequencing and clinical analysis of intrahepatic hepatitis B virus cccDNA from HCC.  
  Jiao Fengping et al. Microbial pathogenesis 2017 May
• Ultra-deep sequencing reveals high prevalence and broad structural diversity of hepatitis B surface antigen mutations in a global population.  
  Gencay Mikael et al. PloS one 2017 (5) e0172101
• Study: Genetic markers may predict which HCV, cirrhosis patients improve with treatment  
  Science Magazine, May 6, 2017
• New real-time-PCR method to identify single point mutations in hepatitis C virus.  
  Chen Qian et al. World journal of gastroenterology 2016 Nov (43) 9604-9612
• Genotype-specific evolution of hepatitis E virus.  
  Brayne Adam B et al. Journal of virology 2017 Feb
• Genetic study reveals how hepatitis C interacts with humans  
  Oxford University, April 10, 2017
• Genome-to-genome analysis highlights the effect of the human innate and adaptive immune systems on the hepatitis C virus.  
  Ansari M Azim et al. Nature genetics 2017 Apr
• Clinical importance of pharmacogenetics in the treatment of hepatitis C virus infection.  
  Kamal Adina Maria et al. Romanian journal of morphology and embryology = Revue roumaine de morphologie et embryologie 2016 57(2 Suppl) 675-680
• GHOST Makes Connections in Hepatitis C Virus Transmission 
• Transmission of Hepatitis A Virus through Combined Liver-Small Intestine-Pancreas Transplantation.  
  Foster Monique A et al. Emerging infectious diseases 2017 Apr (4) 590-596

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