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Chao-Nan Xie1, Ming Yue2, Peng Huang1

  • 1Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing 211166, Jiangsu, China.

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Keywords:
Chinese populationGenetic polymorphismHepatitis C virusInfectionVitamin D binding protein

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