Dr. Roba Mohamed Talaat, Assiatant Professor, Molecular Immunology, Molecular Biology Department, Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology Research Institute, University of Sadat City, Sadat City 21547, Egypt. roba.talaat@gebri.usc.edu.eg
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World J Gastroenterol. Aug 14, 2016; 22(30): 6800-6816 Published online Aug 14, 2016. doi: 10.3748/wjg.v22.i30.6800
Hepatitis-related hepatocellular carcinoma: Insights into cytokine gene polymorphisms
Mahmoud Fathy Dondeti, Eman Anwar El-Maadawy, Roba Mohamed Talaat
Mahmoud Fathy Dondeti, Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology Research Division, National Research Centre, Dokki, Cairo 11435, Egypt
Eman Anwar El-Maadawy, Roba Mohamed Talaat, Molecular Biology Department, Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology Research Institute, University of Sadat City, Sadat City 21547, Egypt
Author contributions: All authors have equally contributed to this paper with conception, literature review, drafting and critical revision and editing, and final approval of the final version.
Conflict-of-interest statement: No potential conflicts of interest and No financial support.
Open-Access: This article is an open-access article which was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
Correspondence to: Dr. Roba Mohamed Talaat, Assiatant Professor, Molecular Immunology, Molecular Biology Department, Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology Research Institute, University of Sadat City, Sadat City 21547, Egypt. roba.talaat@gebri.usc.edu.eg
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Received: March 28, 2016 Peer-review started: March 31, 2016 First decision: May 12, 2016 Revised: June 11, 2016 Accepted: July 6, 2016 Article in press: July 6, 2016 Published online: August 14, 2016 Processing time: 129 Days and 8.9 Hours
Core Tip
Core tip: Cytokines have a decisive role in the pathophysiology of many infectious, autoimmune and malignant diseases. Changes in cytokine secretion profile are involved in one way or another in susceptibility to hepatitis B virus (HBV) and hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection and eventualy are thought to influence the disease phenotype and the rapid progression to HCC. Individual variation in cytokine profile might, at least partially, to genetic alteration within the regulatory regions of cytokine genes. One of the most studied phenomena is the allelic polymorphism and its implication in cytokine gene expression, and the susceptibility to infection, clinical severity of diseases and response to treatment. This review concentrates on the cytokine gene polymorphism case-control and meta-analysis studies performed all over the world on hepatocellular carcinoma patients (as a consequence to HBV or HCV infection).
