894 FEMALE SEX AND VARIATIONS IN IL28B ARE INDEPENDENTLY ASSOCIATED WITH SPONTANEOUS CLEARANCE OF ACUTE HCV INFECTION

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894 FEMALE SEX AND VARIATIONS IN IL28B ARE INDEPENDENTLY ASSOCIATED WITH SPONTANEOUS CLEARANCE OF ACUTE HCV INFECTION J. Grebely, G.J. Dore, M. Schim van der Loeff, T. Rice, A.L. Cox, J. Bruneau, A.Y. Kim, J. George, L. Maher, A.R. Lloyd, M. Hellard, K. Page, M. Prins, on behalf of the InC3 Collaborative Group. The Kirby Institute for Infection and Immunity in Society, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia; GGD Public Health Service of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco, CA, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, MD, USA; CRCHUM, Universite de Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada; Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA; Storr Liver Unit, Westmead Millennium Institute, University of Sydney, School of Medical Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Burnet Institute, Melbourne, VIC, Australia E-mail: jgrebely@kirby.unsw.edu.au