Hepatitis C virus gets personal

摘要

Many people infected with the hepatitis C virus are not cured despite gruelling therapy. A human genetic variant that predicts successful treatment has been identified. So is personalized therapy now a possibility?rnA staggering 170 million people are persistently infected with the hepatitis C virus (HCV), including 1-1.7% of people in the United States and roughly the same proportion in the European Union. HCV infection causes a slowly progressive liver disease that can lead to cirrhosis over several decades.