Abstract: Patients with HBV DNA breakthroughs had higher percentages of
YMDD variants without the presence of wild-type
YMDD compared with patients without HBV DNA breakthrough (25.6% vs. 9%, P =.007 for single
M552I variant; 20.9% vs. 8.1%, P =.026 for single
M552V variant; 30.2% vs. 9.9%, P =.004 for
M552I/
M552V variants). Patients with HBV DNA levels of more than 10(3) copies/mL after 6 months of lamivudine therapy had a 63.2% chance of subsequently developing
YMDD variants.