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The Japanese hepatitis C virus isolate HC-J1 showed high nucleotide sequence homology to USA isolates, classifying it as a type I HCV genotype.
The Japanese HCV isolate HC-J1 shows high homology to USA isolates, suggesting it may have been imported from the USA to Japan.
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Classifies Japanese HCV as type I; leaves open USA importation hypothesis for larger phylogenetic studies.
Hiroaki Okamoto, Nobuyuki Kanai, Shunji Mishiro; Full-length nucleotide sequence of a Japanese hepatitis C virus isolate (HC-J1) with high homology to USA
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Okamoto et al. (1992) studied Hepatitis C (n=1). HCV isolate HC-J1 vs. Other HCV isolates was evaluated on Nucleotide sequence homology. The Japanese hepatitis C virus isolate HC-J1 showed high nucleotide sequence homology to USA isolates, classifying it as a type I HCV genotype.
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