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. 2015 Dec 21;21(47):13360–13367. doi: 10.3748/wjg.v21.i47.13360

Table 1.

Sensitivity of nested polymerase chain reaction assay for the amplification of the 572-bp HBV X antigen fragment n (%)

No. of samples (n = 198)
Sensitivity
HCC (n =121) Carrier (n =77)
PCR amplification 46 (38.0) 23 (29.9) 34.8%

PCR: Polymerase chain reaction.