Table 2.
Prevalence of precore and core promoter variants and its correlation with genotypes found in Mexican HBV isolates
| Region and variant | n (%) | Genotypes | ||||
|
A |
D |
G |
H |
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| (n = 4) | (n = 3) | (n = 5) | (n = 37) | |||
| Precore (nt 1896) | ||||||
| Wild type (G) | 41 | (83.7) | 3 | 2 | 36 | |
| Wild type + variant (G + A) | 6 | (12.2) | 1 | 5 | ||
| Indeterminate | 2 | (4.1) | 1 | 1 | ||
| Core promoter (nt 1762 and 1764) | ||||||
| Wild type (AG) | 44 | (89.8) | 4 | 2 | 5 | 33 |
| Dual variant (TA) | 1 | (2) | 1 | |||
| Indeterminate | 4 | (8.2) | 1 | 3 | ||