THE INFLUENCE OF GENETIC FACTORS ON CLINICAL COURSE AND OUTCOMES OF CHRONIC HEPATITIS C AND B

The review of the national and foreign literature over the past 5 years describe the results of researches of processes intercellular interactions of immune cells in chronic hepatitis B and C, mediated by cytokines. There are data on functional polymorphism of cytokine genes and their receptors in various somatic diseases and the possibility of connection allelic polymorphism of cytokine genes and the severity and outcomes of viral hepatitis.