Reham Fares Mohammed Elrouby <br/><br/>
Relation between osteopntin gene polymorphism and the efficacy of interferon - based therapies in HCV patients /  
 العلاقة بين التحور فى جين الاستيوبونتين وكفاءة العلاج بالانترفيرون فى مرضى الالتهاب الكبدى الوبائى سى 
Reham Fares Mohammed Elrouby ; Supervised Olfat Gamil Shaker , Yasser Hussein Nassar , Amr Aly Zahra 
 - Cairo :   Reham Fares Mohammed Elrouby ,   2011 
 - 116 P. :   charts , facsimiles ;   25cm 
<br/><br/>Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Medical Biochemistry 
<br/><br/> HCV is considered one the major health problems worldwide . This study aimed to determine the relationship between Osteopontin gene polymorphism and the efficacy of interferon - based therapies in HCV patients . The study included 99 HCV chronically infected Egyptian patients . All of them received PEG - IFN alpha - 2b plus ribavirin for 24 weeks 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>Chronic Hepatitis C  Osteopntin  Promoter SNPs