Association of NTCP polymorphisms with clinical outcome of hepatitis B infection in Thai individuals.

Our results showed that rs2296651 polymorphism was associated with a decreased risk of susceptibility to HBV infection and the development of HCC. These data suggest that the NTCP polymorphism might have an influence on natural history of HBV infection in Thai individuals. This abstract was partly presented at the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD) Meeting 2018, November 9-13, 2018, in San Francisco, CA, USA and was published in Hepatology 2018; 68:1237A-1238A.