Table 2 Mean amounts of total HBV DNA, cccDNA and pgRNA in matched tumour and non-tumour tissue samples.

From: Mitochondrial DNA is a target of HBV integration

Tissue sample

HBV parameters

mean ± SD (copies/cell)

 

Total HBV DNA

HBV cccDNA

pgRNA

Tumour

468.2 ± 792*

2.7 ± 5.9#

87.6 ± 226§

Non-tumour

2269 ± 5622*

2 ± 4.9#

110.7 ± 219.7§

  1. cccDNA covalently closed circular DNA, pgRNA pregenomic RNA.
  2. *P = 0.376, #P = 0.818, §P = 0.220 (Student’s t test).
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