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ReviewEBioMedicine2016

Hepatitis E Virus Mutations: Functional and Clinical Relevance.

Hoang van Tong, Nghiem Xuan Hoan, Bo Wang, Heiner Wedemeyer, C-Thomas Bock, Thirumalaisamy P Velavan

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Review in EBioMedicine, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 45 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
45citing papers in PubMed
4.6field-weighted citation impact, top 5% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

45 citing papers in PubMed, 74 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Extrahepatic Replication and Genomic Signatures of the Hepatitis E Virus in the Kidney.Liver international : official journal of the International Association for the Study of the Liver · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Hoang van TongInstitute of Tropical Medicine, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany. Electronic address: tong.van-hoang@uni-tuebingen.de.
Nghiem Xuan HoanInstitute of Tropical Medicine, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.
Bo WangDepartment of Infectious Diseases, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany.
Heiner WedemeyerDepartment of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Endocrinology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany.
C-Thomas BockDepartment of Infectious Diseases, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany. Electronic address: bockc@rki.de.
Thirumalaisamy P VelavanInstitute of Tropical Medicine, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.
University of Tübingen · DERobert Koch Institute · DEMedizinische Hochschule Hannover · DE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Hepatitis E virus (HEV) infection is a major cause of acute hepatitis and affects more than 20 million individuals, with three million symptomatic cases and 56,000 recognized HEV-related deaths worldwide. HEV is endemic in developing countries and is gaining importance in developed countries, due to increased number of autochthone cases. Although HEV replication is controlled by the host immune system, viral factors (especially specific viral genotypes and mutants) can modulate HEV replication, infection and pathogenesis. Limited knowledge exists on the contribution of HEV genome variants towards pathogenesis, susceptibility and to therapeutic response. Nonsynonymous substitutions can modulate viral proteins structurally and thus dysregulate virus-host interactions. This review aims to compile knowledge and discuss recent advances on the casual role of HEV heterogeneity and its variants on viral morphogenesis, pathogenesis, clinical outcome and antiviral resistance.

Indexed as

Genome, ViralMutationAntiviral AgentsGenetic VariationGenotypeHepatitis EHepatitis E virusHumansOpen Reading FramesRecombination, GeneticRNA, ViralViral VaccinesVirus ReplicationAntiviral AgentsRNA, ViralViral VaccinesHepatitis E virusHEV infectionHEV mutationHEV replicationHEV treatment failureHEV variability

Identifiers

PMID27528267
PMCPMC5049923
OpenAlexW2482991708

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Registered trials

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