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Offline greginky

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IL28B
« on: September 14, 2010, 09:33:44 PM »
Has anyone read much on this? IL28B

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v461/n7262/full/nature08309.html

It is a genetic marker that tells if a person is likely to respond to treatment. I just talked to a friend who just today got the info from her trial back. She found out that she was on the real stuff, the Boceprevir. And since she had relapsed that was disheartening for her. But they took blood today to look for this genetic marker to see how she might respond to future treatment.
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Re: IL28B
« Reply #1 on: September 14, 2010, 09:58:48 PM »
have heard about it, but not read much.  thanks for the link.
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Re: IL28B
« Reply #2 on: September 14, 2010, 10:40:49 PM »
First I've heard about it Greg, interesting article!!! Thanks for sharing that.    Keith
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Re: IL28B
« Reply #3 on: September 15, 2010, 08:40:06 AM »
Another link, this is very interesting. I think we will soon be hearing a lot about this, it is cutting edge information

http://www.aidsmap.com/page/1437991/
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Re: IL28B
« Reply #4 on: September 15, 2010, 08:51:53 AM »
The trial I'm on did something like that....I'll have to ask them specifically what test/marker they were looking for.
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Re: IL28B
« Reply #5 on: September 16, 2010, 03:17:25 PM »
I also know a 3 times non responder being tested for this...It's a predictive test. It checks to see how your response to PegIFN will be. There's three geno's (CC, CT, TT).

another link

http://people.genome.duke.edu/~dg48/L8464-0710-Service-Announcement-FINAL.pdf
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Re: IL28B
« Reply #6 on: September 23, 2010, 12:27:52 PM »
Hi, My clinical trial people said that they did this test on me! Great idea, concept.
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