IFNL3 and chronic hepatitis C virus infection: The study by Shi et al. (2012) in a Chinese population demonstrated that the expression of the IL28B gene was significantly reduced in a group of patients with chronic hepatitis C (n = 529), compared with individuals who exhibited spontaneous viral clearance (n = 196, p = 0.003) and with non-infected individuals (n = 171, p = 0.04).