Abstract
Background: To date, drug response genes have not proved as useful in clinical practice as was anticipated at the start of the genomic era. An exception is in the treatment of chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) genotype 1 infection with pegylated interferon-alpha and ribavirin (PegIFN/R). Viral clearance is achieved in 40%-50% of patients. Interleukin 28B (IL28B) genotype predicts treatment-induced and spontaneous clearance. To improve the predictive value of this genotype, we studied the combined effect of variants of IL28B with human leukocyte antigen C (HLA-C), and its ligands the killer immunoglobulin-like receptors (KIR), which have previously been implicated in HCV viral control.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | e1001092 |
| Number of pages | 8 |
| Journal | PLoS Medicine |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue number | 9 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2011 |
Open Access - Access Right Statement
©2011 Suppiah et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.UN SDGs
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Keywords
- genotyping techniques
- hepatitis C virus
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