List of Selected Publications

1. Abe, H., Hayes, C.N., Ochi, H., Maekawa, T., Tsuge, M., Miki, D., Mitsui, F., Hiraga, N., Imamura, M., Takahashi, S., Kubo, M., Nakamura, Y., Chayama, K.:
   "IL28 variation affects expression of interferon stimulated genes and peg-interferon and ribavirin therapy."
   J. Hepatol. (2011) in press.
2. Fujimoto, Y., Ochi, H., Maekawa, T., Abe, H., Hayes, C.N., Kumada, H., Nakamura, Y., Chayama, K.:
   "A single nucleotide polymorphism in activated cdc42 associated tyrosine kinase 1 influences the interferon therapy in hepatitis C patients."
   J. Hepatol. (2011) in press.
3. Ochi, H., Maekawa, T., Abe, H., Hayashida, Y., Nakano, R., Imamura, M., Hiraga, N., Kawakami, Y., Aimitsu, S., Kao, J.H., Kubo, M., Tsunoda, T., Kumada, H., Nakamura, Y., Hayes, C.N., Chayama, K.:
   "IL-28B predicts response to chronic hepatitis C therapy - fine-mapping and replication study in Asian populations."
   J. Gen. Virol. (2011) in press.
4. Hayes, C.N., Kobayashi, M., Akuta, N., Suzuki, F., Kumada, H., Abe, H., Miki, D., Imamura, M., Ochi, H., Kamatani, N., Nakamura, Y., Chayama, K.:
   "HCV substitutions and IL28B polymorphisms on outcome of peg-interferon plus ribavirin combination therapy."
   Gut 60(2), 261-7 (2011).
5. Miki, D., Kubo, M., Takahashi, A., Yoon, K.A., Kim, J., Lee, G.K., Zo, J.I., Lee, J.S., Hosono, N., Morizono, T., Tsunoda, T., Kamatani, N., Chayama, K., Takahashi, T., Inazawa, J., Nakamura, Y., Daigo, Y.:
   "Variation in TP63 is associated with lung adenocarcinoma susceptibility in Japanese and Korean populations."
   Nat. Genet. 42(10), 893-6 (2010).
6. Ochi, H., Maekawa, T., Abe, H., Hayashida, Y., Nakano, R., Kubo, M., Tsunoda, T., Hayes, C.N., Kumada, H., Nakamura, Y., Chayama, K.:
   "ITPA polymorphism affects ribavirin-induced anemia and outcomes of therapy - a genome-wide study of Japanese HCV virus patients."
   Gastroenterology 139(4), 1190-7 (2010).
7. Abe, H., Ochi, H., Maekawa, T., Hayes, C.N., Tsuge, M., Miki, D., Mitsui, F., Hiraga, N., Imamura, M., Takahashi, S., Ohishi, W., Arihiro, K., Kubo, M., Nakamura, Y., Chayama, K.:
   "Common variation of IL28 affects gamma-GTP levels and inflammation of the liver in chronically infected hepatitis C virus patients."
   J. Hepatol. 53(3), 439-43 (2010).
8. Kamatani, Y., Wattanapokayakit, S., Ochi, H., Kawaguchi, T., Takahashi, A., Hosono, N., Kubo, M., Tsunoda, T., Kamatani, N., Kumada, H., Puseenam, A., Sura, T., Daigo, Y., Chayama, K., Chantratita, W., Nakamura, Y., Matsuda, K.:
   "A genome-wide association study identifies variants in the HLA-DP locus associated with chronic hepatitis B in Asians."
   Nat. Genet. 41(5), 591-5 (2009).
9. Tsukada, H., Ochi, H., Maekawa, T., Abe, H., Fujimoto, Y., Tsuge, M., Takahashi, H., Kumada, H., Kamatani, N., Nakamura, Y., Chayama, K.:
   "A polymorphism in MAPKAPK3 affects response to interferon therapy for chronic hepatitis C."
   Gastroenterology 136(5), 1796-805 (2009)
10. Tsuge, M., Hamamoto, R., Silva, F.P., Ohnishi, Y., Chayama, K., Kamatani, N., Furukawa, Y., Nakamura, Y.:
    "A variable number of tandem repeats polymorphism in an E2F-1 binding element in the 5' flanking region of SMYD3 is a risk factor for human cancers."
    Nat. Genet. 37(10), 1104-7 (2005).

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