Kidney Complications

Genes could predispose hepatitis B patients for developing nephropathy

Published in Hepatitis Weekly, May 20th, 2002

by Sonia Nichols, senior medical writer - Research evidence points to genotypic differences in black youngsters infected with hepatitis B virus (HBV) for the potential of developing membranous nephropathy.

In one of the first studies of its kind, epidemiologists in South Africa have traced nephropathic syndromes in HBV-infected black children to genetic factors by studying HLA antigen frequencies among affected individuals and unaffected controls. Their report of that study highlights the genetic frequencies that might indicate a greater risk for membranous nephropathy (MN) among the study population.

Study group members included 30 youth between...

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