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ReviewWorld journal of gastroenterology2014

Hepatitis B virus mutations related to liver disease progression of Korean patients.

Bum-Joon Kim

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Review in World journal of gastroenterology, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers.

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19citing papers in PubMed
3.4field-weighted citation impact, top 8% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

19 citing papers in PubMed, 35 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Bum-Joon KimBum-Joon Kim, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Microbiology and Immunology, Liver Research Institute, and Cancer Research Institute, College of Medicine, Seoul National University, Seoul 110-799, South Korea.
Cancer Research Institute · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection is a global health problem and more than 350 million people worldwide are chronic carriers of the virus. Despite the recent dramatic decline in HBV chronic patients through successful programs of hepatitis B surface antigen vaccination, South Korea is still recognized as an endemic area of HBV infection. HBV infections in South Korea exhibit several distinct features in epidemiologic and clinical aspects. In this review paper, we summarize the distinct HBV mutation patterns related to clinical severity and the molecular epidemiologic traits in Korean chronic patients based on previous reports. Generally, several lines of evidence, including our previous results, have led to the conclusion that a combination of the exclusive predominance of genotype C2, which is prone to mutations, the high prevalence of basal core promoter double mutations, and the presence of distinct immune responses against HBV proteins in the Korean population may generate the distinct HBV variants rarely or not encountered in other areas, which results in distinct clinical manifestations in Korean chronic patients. This may provide a novel insight into the relationships between clinical severity, HBV genotype distribution, and HBV naturally occurring variants.

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Asian PeopleMutationDisease ProgressionGenotypeHepatitis B, ChronicHepatitis B virusHumansPhenotypePrognosisRepublic of KoreaRisk FactorsSeverity of Illness IndexGenotype C2Hepatitis B virusHepatocellular carcinomaMutationSouth Korea

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PMID24574714
PMCPMC3923020
OpenAlexW2053074376

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