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Higher proportion of viral basal core promoter mutant increases the risk of liver cirrhosis in hepatitis B carriers

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  • Tai-Chung Tseng Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine, Taipei Tzuchi Hospital, The Buddhist Tzuchi Medical Foundation, Taipei, Taiwan School of Medicine, Tzu Chi University, Hualien, Taiwan PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Chun-Jen Liu Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan Graduate Institute of Clinical Medicine, National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Hung-Chih Yang Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan Department of Microbiology, National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Chi-Ling Chen Graduate Institute of Clinical Medicine, National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Wan-Ting Yang Hepatitis Research Center, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan Master of Public Health Degree Program, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Cheng-Shiue Tsai Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine, Taipei Tzuchi Hospital, The Buddhist Tzuchi Medical Foundation, Taipei, Taiwan PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Stephanie Fang-Tzu Kuo St Vincent's Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Femke Carolien Verbree Medisch centrum haaglanden, The Hague, The Netherlands PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Tung-Hung Su Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan Graduate Institute of Clinical Medicine, National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Chia-Chi Wang Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine, Taipei Tzuchi Hospital, The Buddhist Tzuchi Medical Foundation, Taipei, Taiwan PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Chen-Hua Liu Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan Graduate Institute of Clinical Medicine, National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Pei-Jer Chen Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan Graduate Institute of Clinical Medicine, National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Ding-Shinn Chen Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan Graduate Institute of Clinical Medicine, National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan Hepatitis Research Center, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan Genomics Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taiwan PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Jia-Horng Kao Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan Graduate Institute of Clinical Medicine, National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan Hepatitis Research Center, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan Department of Medical Research, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  1. Correspondence to Professor Jia-Horng Kao, Graduate Institute of Clinical Medicine, National Taiwan University College of Medicine, 1 Chang-Te St., Taipei 10002, Taiwan; kaojh{at}ntu.edu.tw
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Citation

Tseng T, Liu C, Yang H, et al
Higher proportion of viral basal core promoter mutant increases the risk of liver cirrhosis in hepatitis B carriers
Gut 2015;64:292-302.

Publication history

  • Received February 12, 2014
  • Revised March 22, 2014
  • Accepted April 4, 2014
  • First published April 24, 2014.
Online issue publication 
September 22, 2016

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