Abstract: Three
core immune escape mutations were significantly higher in patients with coexisting
precore stop codon compared with patients without
precore stop codon mutation,
cT12S (43 vs. 8%, p < 0.001),
cS21T (16 vs. 3.4%, p < 0.026), and
cE77D (30 vs. 4.5%, p < 0.002).