Hunting for fibrosis progression genes in hepatitis C patients

Pietro Invernizzi (1)

1 Center for Autoimmune Liver Diseases, Division of Internal Medicine

Hepatitis C virus (HCV) represents one of the major health problems worldwide, as almost 170 million are infected and most of patients develop a chronic disease, often with progression to cirrhosis and its complications. The study by Iwata and colleagues [1] reports an association between a variant of a gene regulating bile acid levels, ABCB11 1331T

Mots clés: Medicine

Pietro Invernizzi. Hunting for fibrosis progression genes in hepatitis C patients. Clinical Science, 2010, 120 (7), pp.285-286. ⟨10.1042/CS20100553⟩. ⟨hal-00651148⟩