Predictive prognostic role of with discrepancy in the liver and serum of genotype 4 hepatitis C virus patients.

microRNA (miRNA) expression in organs does not always represent their quantity in serum. A disparity in the expression of has been reported in the tissues and serum of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) patients. Since hepatitis C virus (HCV) is a major cause of HCC and has never been studied in HCV, the present study aimed to investigate the expression profile in genotype 4 (GT4)-HCV patients to evaluate whether this pattern is also apparent in HCV.