Comparison of Quasispecies Diversity of HCV between Chronic Hepatitis C and Hepatocellular Carcinoma by Ultradeep Pyrosequencing

<table>Comparison of HCV quasispecies diversity in chronic hepatitis C (CHC) and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) caused by HCV. Red dots represent the average Shannon diversity indices of the patients with CHC. Green dots represent the average Shannon diversity indices of the patients with HCC caused by HCV infection. And blue dots represent the corrected <svg height="11.175" id="M28" style="vertical-align:-0.0pt" version="1.1" viewbox="0 0 10.9375 11.175" width="10.9375" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">
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</svg> value. (a) Comparison of HCV quasispecies diversity in each nucleotide position of HCV structural protein. (b) Comparison of HCV quasispecies diversity in each amino acid position of HCV structural protein.</table>

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Figure 4: Comparison of Quasispecies Diversity of HCV between Chronic Hepatitis C and Hepatocellular Carcinoma by Ultradeep Pyrosequencing 