These two authors equally contributed to this work.
Mutational complex genotype of the hepatitis B virus X /precore regions as a novel predictive marker for hepatocellular carcinoma
Article first published online: 19 JAN 2012
DOI: 10.1111/j.1349-7006.2011.02170.x
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Jang, J. W., Chun, J.-Y., Park, Y. M., Shin, S.-K., Yoo, W., Kim, S.-O. and Hong, S. P. (2012), Mutational complex genotype of the hepatitis B virus X /precore regions as a novel predictive marker for hepatocellular carcinoma. Cancer Science, 103: 296–304. doi: 10.1111/j.1349-7006.2011.02170.x
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These two authors equally contributed to this work.
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- Issue published online: 1 FEB 2012
- Article first published online: 19 JAN 2012
- Accepted manuscript online: 2 DEC 2011 09:44AM EST
- (Received October 20, 2011/Revised November 10, 2011/Accepted November 14, 2011/Accepted manuscript online December 2, 2011)
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Fig. S1. Prevalence of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) according to the number of mutations in the X/precore regions of hepatitis B virus (HBV), showing low, intermediate and high risk for patients with mutations ≤2, 3–5 and ≥6, respectively.
Fig. S2. Proportion of individual mutations at each number of mutations in the X/precore regions.
Fig. S3. Comparison of distribution in the mutational combination patterns between hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) and non-HCC groups.
Fig. S4. Comparison of sensitivity and specificity for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) detection between α-fetoprotein and mutation numbers by ROC.
Table S1. Sequence of primers in this study.
Table S2. Comparison of frequencies between hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) and non-HCC groups in each pattern of the 55 mutational combination patterns.
Table S3. Linear increasing trend of the proportion of cases with α-fetoprotein (AFP) ≥ 20 ng/mL in serum according to the number of accumulated mutations in total cases (n = 150).
Table S4. Validation analysis using hepatitis B virus (HBV) DNA sequences registered in the GenBank database.
Data S1. Polymerase chain reaction for restriction fragment mass polymorphism (RFMP) assay.
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