Original Article
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World J Gastroenterol. Mar 7, 2013; 19(9): 1387-1395
Published online Mar 7, 2013. doi: 10.3748/wjg.v19.i9.1387
Pre-treatment role of inosine triphosphate pyrophosphatase polymorphism for predicting anemia in Egyptian hepatitis C virus patients
Walaa H Ahmed, Norihiro Furusyo, Saad Zaky, Abeer Sharaf Eldin, Hany Aboalam, Eiichi Ogawa, Masayuki Murata, Jun Hayashi
Walaa H Ahmed, Norihiro Furusyo, Jun Hayashi, Department of Environmental Medicine and Infectious Diseases, Kyushu University Hospital, Fukuoka 812-8582, Japan
Saad Zaky, Abeer Sharaf Eldin, Department of Tropical Medicine and Gastroenterology, Assiut University Hospital, Assuit 71515, Egypt
Hany Aboalam, National Center for Treatment of Chronic Hepatitis C, Ministry of Health, Assiut 71329, Egypt
Norihiro Furusyo, Eiichi Ogawa, Masayuki Murata, Jun Hayashi, Department of General Internal Medicine, Kyushu University Hospital, Fukuoka 812-8582, Japan
Author contributions: Ahmed WH and Furusyo N designed the research; Ahmed WH, Zaky S, Sharaf Eldin A and Aboalam H regularly collected the samples from the patients for laboratory investigations; Sharaf Eldin A and Aboalam H contributed to monitoring of the patients during treatment; Ahmed WH analyzed and interpreted the data with statistical performance; Ahmed WH performed the research and wrote the paper; Furusyo N, Zaky S, Ogawa E, Murata M and Hayashi J reviewed the article critically for important intellectual content.
Supported by A Grant–in-Aid for Comprehensive Research from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports Science and Technology of Japan
Correspondence to: Jun Hayashi, MD, PhD, Department of General Internal Medicine, Kyushu University Hospital, 3-1-1, Maidashi, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka 812-8582, Japan. hayashij@gim.med.kyushu-u.ac.jp
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Received: August 2, 2012
Revised: November 7, 2012
Accepted: November 24, 2012
Published online: March 7, 2013
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