Epidemiology of precore mutatants of&n

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=11074475&dopt=Abstract
J Med Virol. 2000 Dec;62(4):463-70.  Related Articles, Links  
Epidemiology of precore mutants of hepatitis B in the United Kingdom.

Ballard AL, Boxall EH.

Public Health Laboratory, Heartlands Hospital, Birmingham, United Kingdom.

A point mutation assay was used to study the codon 28 and codon 1 precore mutant status of 310 chronic hepatitis B carriers (82 HBeAg positive and 228 HBeAg negative). Fourteen of 228 (6%) of HBeAg negative carriers had high levels of serum HBV DNA. Nine of these were explained by precore variants, three by core promoter variants, and two were not explained by recognised precore changes. Nested PCR detected serum HBV DNA in 36% (82/228) of HBeAg negative carriers and 63% (52/82) of these had precore variants. Four of 82 (4%) of the HBeAg positive carriers had precore variants, all as mixed mutant/wild type populations and evidence indicated that these carriers were seroconverting. Overall 23% (52/228) of HBeAg negative carriers had both serum HBV DNA and codon 1 or 28 precore mutations. A sexual transmission event from an HBeAg negative carrier with a relatively low serum HBV DNA level (10(4)-10(6) genome copies/ml) and only core promoter mutations was observed. Despite high rates of variant carriage in the antenatal sub-group perinatal transmission was not observed. The results of direct sequencing on 45 carriers validated the point mutation assay and also showed that codon 28 mutations were only seen in carriers with the genotype CCT at codon 15. For the Caucasian population a higher prevalence of codon 28 mutations (13/25 or 52%) than expected was seen. Liver biopsy data indicated that there was no link between the presence or absence of precore mutants and the severity of liver disease. Copyright 2000 Wiley-Liss, Inc.

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