TY - BOOK AU - Reham Fares Mohammed Elrouby AU - Amr Aly Zahra , AU - Olfat Gamil Shaker , AU - Yasser Hussein Nassar , TI - Relation between osteopntin gene polymorphism and the efficacy of interferon - based therapies in HCV patients / PY - 2011/// CY - Cairo : PB - Reham Fares Mohammed Elrouby , KW - Chronic Hepatitis C KW - Osteopntin KW - Promoter SNPs N1 - Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Medical Biochemistry; Issued also as CD N2 - 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 ER -