Annotation Detail

Information
Associated Genes
IFNL3
Associated Variants
NC_000019.10:g.39252525T>G
NC_000019.10:g.39252525T>G
Associated Disease
Hepatitis C, Chronic
Source Database
DisGeNET
Description
Variation at the IL-28B locus was recently reported to be a significant predictive factor of viral response to pegylated-interferon plus ribavirin combination therapy against chronic hepatitis C. Predictive factors for the effect of therapy, including IL-28B polymorphism rs8099917 and viral and clinical factors were investigated.
Pubmed
21503910
Original source reporting the Gene Disease association
BeFree
DisGENET score for the Gene Disease association
0.0948429671860937
Year of publication
2011
Drugs