Hepatitis: Genomics & Public Health

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Hepatitis: Genomics & Public Health

CDC information: World Hepatitis Day
 
CDC information on hepatitis 
Hepatitis B and Hepatitis C can become chronic, life-long infections which can lead to liver cancer. Millions of Americans are living with chronic viral hepatitis, and many do not know they are infected

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CDC recommendations for the identification of chronic hepatitis C virus infection among persons born during 1945–1965

CDC recommends that an FDA-approved hepatitis C nucleic acid test should be used to identify active hepatitis C infection among persons who test anti-HCV positive

CDC paper: Viral hepatitis C gets personal--the value of human genomics to public health. 
Zhang L, Gwinn M, Hu DJ. Public Health Genomics. 2013;16(4):192-7.

Did you know? > 1300 genes have been reported in relation to risk and outcomes of hepatitis, including 56 genomewide association studies and 70 meta analyses? To find out more, visit the HuGE Navigator

Integrative functional genomics of hepatitis C virus infection identifies host dependencies in complete viral replication cycle 
Qisheng Li et al. PloS Pathogens, May, 2014

Meta-analysis: implications of interleukin-28B polymorphisms in spontaneous and treatment-related clearance for patients with hepatitis C
María A Jiménez-Sousa et al. BMC Medicine 2013