APRI-M6 for predicting long-term outcome of chronic hepatitis C patients after interferon-based therapy: More questions than answers

✍ Scribed by Tung-Hung Su; Jia-Horng Kao; Ding-Shinn Chen

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 59 KB
• Volume: 45
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0270-9139
• DOI: 10.1002/hep.21575

✦ Synopsis

We recognize the confusing terminology but can confirm that the gene we cloned and sequenced from the mouse genomic library and therefore subsequently knocked out is definitely RegIIIbeta, which we also name as Reg-2 because it is the homolog of rat Reg-2.

To clarify the terminology, Table compares the nomenclature and clarifies the homologies of the various members of the Reg family. We believe that the confusion is due to the mixed usage of Arabic numerals (2 and 3) and Roman numerals (I, II, and III) adopted in previous papers. The table by Liu and Cui uses Arabic numerals, but in original articles, the usages are a mixture of Arabic and Roman. In any event, we agree the terminology is inconvenient (see Namikawa et al. 2 and Namikawa et al. 3 ).