Modeling hepatic fibrosis in African American and Caucasian American patients with chronic hepatitis C virus infection.

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Published in Hepatology on October 01, 2006

Authors

Robert J Fontana1, David E Kleiner, Richard Bilonick, Norah Terrault, Nezam Afdhal, Steven H Belle, Lennox J Jeffers, Darmendra Ramcharran, Marc G Ghany, Jay H Hoofnagle, Virahep-C Study Group

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA. rfontana@umich.edu

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