16th-century Korean mummy provides clue to hepatitis B virus genetic code - 0 views
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discovery of a mummified Korean child with relatively preserved organs enabled an Israeli-South Korean scientific team to conduct a genetic analysis on a liver biopsy which revealed a unique hepatitis B virus
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may be used as a model to study the evolution of chronic hepatitis B and help understand the spread of the virus,
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may shed further light on the migratory pathway of hepatitis B in the Far East from China and Japan to Korea as well as to other regions in Asia and Australia where it is a major cause of cirrhosis and liver cancer
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