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SUBMITTER: Thanapirom K
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6948901 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

Asian Pacific journal of cancer prevention : APJCP 20190429 4
Background: Vitamin D deficiency is related to poor clinical outcomes in patients with chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection. Methods: We aimed to investigate the association between the genetic variants in the vitamin D metabolic pathway and the response to pegylated interferon (Peg-IFN) therapy in patients with HBeAg-negative chronic HBV infection. One hundred seven patients treated with Peg-IFN for 48 weeks were selected from 13 specialty hospitals. Eight genotypes of vitamin D cascade ge ...[more]