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. 2014 Feb 26;2014:710642. doi: 10.1155/2014/710642

Table 3.

IL28B rs12979860 variant frequencies in 178 blood donors and 1097 patients with HCV infection and different outcomes. Italian case series.

Blood donors
(HCV neg.)
Spontaneous clearance of HCV HCV patients HCV patients total
Chronic HCV Hepatocellular carcinoma Mixed cryoglobulinemia S. Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma
Number (%) Number (%) Number (%) Number (%) Number (%) Number (%) Number (%)
IL28B genotype
 CC 75 (42.1) 37 (78.7) 197 (36.7) 28 (29.5) 144 (40.9) 22 (32.9) 391 (37.2)
 CT 89 (50.0) 9 (19.2) 271 (50.6) 49 (51.6) 155 (44.0) 37 (55.2) 512 (48.8)
 TT 14 (7.9) 1 (2.1) 68 (12.7) 18 (18.9) 53 (15.1) 8 (11.9) 147 (14.0)
 Total 178 (100.0) 47 (100.0) 536 (100.0) 95 (100.0) 352 (100.0) 67 (100.0) 1050 (100.0)
χ 2 (P value)a Ref. 31.9 (<0.001) 31.4 (<0.001) 24.4 (<0.001) 23.5 (<0.001) 32.8 (<0.001)

IL28B dominant model
 CC 75 (42.1) 37 (78.7) 197 (36.7) 28 (29.5) 144 (40.9) 22 (32.9) 391 (37.2)
 CT + TT 103 (57.9) 10 (21.3) 339 (63.3) 67 (70.5) 208 (59.1) 45 (67.1) 659 (62.8)
 Total 178 (100.0) 47 (100.0) 536 (100.0) 95 (100.0) 352 (100.0) 67 (100.0) 1050 (100.0)
χ 2 (P value)a Ref. 31.7 (<0.001) 30.7 (<0.001) 23.9 (<0.001) 23.3 (<0.001) 32.5 (<0.001)

IL28B allele
 C 239 (67.1) 83 (88.3) 665 (62.0) 105 (55.3) 443 (62.9) 81 (60.4) 1294 (61.2)
 T 117 (32.9) 11 (11.7) 407 (48.0) 85 (44.7) 261 (37.1) 53 (39.6) 806 (38.8)
 Total 356 (100.0) 94 (100.0) 1072 (100.0) 190 (100.0) 704 (100.0) 134 (100.0) 2100 (100.0)
χ 2 (P value)a Ref. 25.9 (<0.001) 30.7 (<0.001) 23.8 (<0.001) 21.2 (<0.001) 27.4 (<0.001)

aPearson's chi-square with spontaneous clearance of HCV as reference group.