455 APOLIPOPROTEIN H IS STRONGLY ASSOCIATED WITH IL28B SNP GENOTYPE AND PREDICTS VIRAL CLEARANCE IN BOTH ACUTE AND CHRONIC HEPATITIS C VIRUS INFECTION

455 APOLIPOPROTEIN H IS STRONGLY ASSOCIATED WITH IL28B SNP GENOTYPE AND PREDICTS VIRAL CLEARANCE IN BOTH ACUTE AND CHRONIC HEPATITIS C VIRUS INFECTION M.E. Laird, A. Mohsen, R. Saleh, D. Duffy, L. Le Fouler, M. El-Daly, M. Rafik, M. Abdel-Hamid, M.K. Mohamed, P. Bonnard, V. Mallet, S. Pol, M. Albert, A. Fontanet, The ANRS HC 20 ETOC Study Group. Immunology, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France; Community Medicine Department, National Research Center, Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt; Emerging Disease Epidemiology, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France; Liver Disease Research, National Hepatology and Tropical Medicine Research Institute, Cairo, Faculty of Medicine, Minia University, Minia, Egypt; Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales, Hopital Tenon (APHP), INSERM U 707, UPMC, Universite Paris Descartes, Institut Cochin, INSERM (IMR-S 1016), CNRS (UMR 8104), Unite d’Hepatologie, Assistance Publique, Hopitaux de Paris (APHP), Groupe Hospitalier Cochin Saint-Vincent de Paul, INSERM U 818, Conservatoire National des Arts et Metiers, Paris, France E-mail: fontanet@pasteur.fr