. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Jan 31.

Published in final edited form as: Hepatology. 2015 Jan 5;61(2):460–470. doi: 10.1002/hep.27344

Table 1.

Study population

	Controls	Patients with spontaneously resolved hepatitis C	Patients with chronic hepatitis C
Number	520	285 Cohort 1: 76 Cohort 2: 209	509 Cohort 1: 199 Cohort 2: 310
Gender	m: 383 (73.7%) f: 137 (26.3%)	m: 110 (38.6%) f: 175 (61.4%)	m: 245 (48.1%) f: 264 (51.9%)
Origin	Germany: 520 (100%)	Germany: 253 (88.8%) Ireland: 28 (9.8%) Southern Europe: 2 (0.7%) Eastern Europe: 2 (0.7%)	Germany: 433 (85.1%) Ireland: 48 (9.4%) Eastern Europe: 16 (3.1%) Russia: 10 (2.0%) Southern Europe: 2 (0.4%)