A recent Egyptian study enrolling 190 HCV-infected patients, mainly with HCV genotype 4 and coinfected with Schistosoma mansoni , showed a highly significant positive association between spontaneous HCV clearance and CCR5delta32 [22] .
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In conclusion, our results, based on a large cohort of 1,450 HCV-infected patients, genotyped for the CCR5delta32 allele and representative of the distribution of this allele in a Caucasian population, showed that that both IFNL3 rs1297860 CT/TT and CCR5delta32 alleles were associated with a decreased spontaneous HCV clearance, although the multivariate analysis barely failed to reach statistical significance for the latter.