eLife (Sep 2019)

What makes the hepatitis C virus evolve?

Thomas R O'Brien,
Rune Hartmann,
Ludmila Prokunina-Olsson

Affiliations

Thomas R O'Brien: ORCiD; Infections and Immunoepidemiology Branch, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, United States
Rune Hartmann: ORCiD; Department of Molecular Biology, University of Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark
Ludmila Prokunina-Olsson: ORCiD; Laboratory of Translational Genomics, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, United States

DOI: https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.50148
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 8

Abstract

Polymorphisms in the IFNL4 gene that affect both the presence and the form of the coded protein are associated with changes in the hepatitis C virus.

Published in eLife

ISSN: 2050-084X (Online)
Publisher: eLife Sciences Publications Ltd
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Medicine; Science: Biology (General)
Website: https://elifesciences.org

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