Abstract: In addition to the characteristics of HBV/B(1)-B(5) at some cis-acting elements, the
precore stop-codon mutant (
G1896A) was significantly different among HBV/B(1), HBV/B(2), and HBV/B(4) (70.3%, 31.7%, 53.0%, P=0.001), while no such mutation was found in HBV/B(3) and B(5).