TY - BOOK AU - Heba Bassiony Atwa Mohamed AU - Mohamed Akmal Elghor , TI - Relation between human leukocyte antigen class II alleles (DQB1 and DRB1) and response to interferon therapy in HCV infected Egyptian patients / PY - 2010/// CY - Cairo : PB - Heba Bassiony Atwa Mohamed , KW - Hepatitis C virus (HCV) KW - Human leukocyte antigen (HLA) KW - Polymorphism N1 - Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Science - Department of Zoology; Issued also as CD N2 - Human leukocyte antigens play an important in the outcome of HCV infection . We investigated whether HLA class II alleles influence the susceptibility to HCV infection or the response to interferon treatment in Egyptian patients . Sixty two patients with chronic HCV infection were treated with combined treatment of inferferon and ribavirin nineteen healthy controls were involved ER -