A Novel Approach to Identify Candidate Prognostic Factors for Hepatitis C Treatment Response Integrating Clinical and Viral Genetic Data

The combined therapy of pegylated interferon (IFN) plus ribavirin (RBV) has been for a long time the standard treatment for patients infected with hepatitis C virus (HCV). In the case of genotype 1, only 38%–48% of patients have a positive response to the combined treatment. In previous studies, vir...

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Main Authors: Alicia Amadoz, Fernando Gonzáez-Candelas
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2015-01-01
Series:Evolutionary Bioinformatics
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.4137/EBO.S20853