Gastroenterology
Volume 138, Issue 4 , Pages 1338-1345.e7 , April 2010

Genetic Variation in IL28B Is Associated With Chronic Hepatitis C and Treatment Failure: A Genome-Wide Association Study

  • Andri Rauch

      Affiliations

    • University Clinic of Infectious Diseases, University Hospital Bern and University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
    • Corresponding Author InformationAndri Rauch, University Clinic of Infectious Diseases, University Hospital Bern, Inselspital PKT2 B, CH-3010 Bern, Switzerland. fax: (41) 31 328 43 60
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  • Zoltán Kutalik

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medical Genetics, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
    • Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Lausanne, Switzerland
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  • Patrick Descombes

      Affiliations

    • Genomics Platform, National Center of Competence in Research “Frontiers in Genetics,” University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
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  • Tao Cai

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Microbiology, University Hospital and University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
    • Infectious Diseases Service, Department of Internal Medicine, University Hospital and University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
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  • Julia Di Iulio

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Microbiology, University Hospital and University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
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  • Tobias Mueller

      Affiliations

    • Medical Clinic for Hepatology and Gastroenterology, Medical University Charité Campus, Virchow–Klinikum Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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  • Murielle Bochud

      Affiliations

    • University Institute for Social and Preventive Medicine, University Hospital and University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
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  • Manuel Battegay

      Affiliations

    • Infectious Diseases and Infection Control Clinic, Department of Medicine, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland
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  • Enos Bernasconi

      Affiliations

    • Infectious Diseases Service, Regional Hospital, Lugano, Switzerland
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  • Jan Borovicka

      Affiliations

    • Division of Gastroenterology, Canton Hospital St Gallen, St Gallen, Switzerland
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  • Sara Colombo

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Microbiology, University Hospital and University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
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  • Andreas Cerny

      Affiliations

    • Liver Unit, Clinica Luganese Moncucco, Lugano, Switzerland
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  • Jean–François Dufour

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Clinical Pharmacology and Visceral Research, University of Bern, Bern and University Clinic of Visceral Surgery and Medicine, Inselspital, Bern, Switzerland
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  • Hansjakob Furrer

      Affiliations

    • University Clinic of Infectious Diseases, University Hospital Bern and University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
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  • Huldrych F. Günthard

      Affiliations

    • Division of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology, University Hospital Zurich, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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  • Markus Heim

      Affiliations

    • Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland
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  • Bernard Hirschel

      Affiliations

    • Division of Infectious Diseases, University Hospital Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
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  • Raffaele Malinverni

      Affiliations

    • Pourtalès Hospital, Neuchâtel, Switzerland
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  • Darius Moradpour

      Affiliations

    • Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University Hospital Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
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  • Beat Müllhaupt

      Affiliations

    • Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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  • Andrea Witteck

      Affiliations

    • Infectious Diseases and Infection Control Unit, Canton Hospital St Gallen, St Gallen, Switzerland
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  • Jacques S. Beckmann

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medical Genetics, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
    • Service of Medical Genetics, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois and University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
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  • Thomas Berg

      Affiliations

    • Medical Clinic for Hepatology and Gastroenterology, Medical University Charité Campus, Virchow–Klinikum Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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  • Sven Bergmann

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medical Genetics, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
    • Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Lausanne, Switzerland
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  • Francesco Negro

      Affiliations

    • Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University Hospitals, Geneva, Switzerland
    • Division of Clinical Pathology, University Hospitals, Geneva, Switzerland
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  • Amalio Telenti

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Microbiology, University Hospital and University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
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  • Pierre–Yves Bochud

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Microbiology, University Hospital and University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
    • Infectious Diseases Service, Department of Internal Medicine, University Hospital and University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests Address requests for reprints to: Pierre-Yves Bochud, Infectious Diseases Service, Department of Medicine, Institute of Microbiology, Rue du Bugnon 48, CH-1011 Lausanne CHUV, Switzerland. fax: (41) 21 314 40 60
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  • Swiss Hepatitis C And HIV Cohort Studies

Received 8 October 2009 ,Accepted 29 December 2009.

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 Conflicts of interest The authors disclose no conflicts.

 Funding The Swiss Hepatitis C and HIV Cohort Studies are supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation (3347C0-108782/1, grant nos. 3347-069366, 3247-116862, and 3100AO-116323/1, and Swiss HIV Cohort Study grant 543), the Swiss Federal Office for Education and Sciences (03.0599), and the European Commission (LSHM-CT-2004-503359; VIRGIL Network of Excellence on Antiviral Drug Resistance). Genotyping in the Swiss Hepatitis C Cohort Study and statistical analyses were supported by the Leenaards Foundation and Debiopharm S.A. Genotyping in the Swiss HIV Cohort Study was supported by an unrestricted grant by Essex Chemie AG, the Novaris Research Foundation, and Infectigen, Switzerland. P.-Y.B. is supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation (32003B_127613/1), and the Leenaards Foundation.

PII: S0016-5085(10)00008-9

doi: 10.1053/j.gastro.2009.12.056

Gastroenterology
Volume 138, Issue 4 , Pages 1338-1345.e7 , April 2010

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