F. Chisari and C. Ferrari, Hepatitis B Virus Immunopathogenesis, Annual Review of Immunology, vol.13, issue.1, pp.29-60, 1995.
DOI : 10.1146/annurev.iy.13.040195.000333

D. Ganem and A. Prince, Hepatitis B Virus Infection ??? Natural History and Clinical Consequences, New England Journal of Medicine, vol.350, issue.11, pp.1118-1129, 2004.
DOI : 10.1056/NEJMra031087

M. Bouchard and R. Schneider, The Enigmatic X Gene of Hepatitis B Virus, Journal of Virology, vol.78, issue.23, pp.12725-12734, 2004.
DOI : 10.1128/JVI.78.23.12725-12734.2004

S. Murakami, Hepatitis B virus X protein: a multifunctional viral regulator, Journal of Gastroenterology, vol.36, issue.10, pp.651-660, 2001.
DOI : 10.1007/s005350170027

M. Baptista, A. Kramvis, and M. Kew, High prevalence of 1762T 1764A mutations in the basic core promoter of hepatitis B virus isolated from black africans with hepatocellular carcinoma compared with asymptomatic carriers, Hepatology, vol.212, issue.3, pp.946-953, 1999.
DOI : 10.1002/hep.510290336

K. Poussin, H. Dienes, H. Sirma, S. Urban, M. Beaugrand et al., Expression of mutated hepatitis B virus X genes in human hepatocellular carcinomas, International Journal of Cancer, vol.55, issue.4, pp.497-505, 1999.
DOI : 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0215(19990209)80:4<497::AID-IJC3>3.0.CO;2-8

S. Kuang, P. Jackson, J. Wang, P. Lu, A. Munoz et al., Specific mutations of hepatitis B virus in plasma predict liver cancer development, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol.99, issue.10, pp.3575-3580, 2004.
DOI : 10.1073/pnas.102167699

B. Leon, L. Taylor, M. Vargas, R. Luftig, F. Albertazzi et al., HBx M130K and V131I (T-A) mutations in HBV genotype F during a follow-up study in chronic carriers, Virology Journal, vol.2, issue.1, p.60, 2005.
DOI : 10.1186/1743-422X-2-60

L. Stuyver, D. Gendt, S. Cadranel, J. Van-geyt, C. Van-reybroeck et al., Three cases of severe subfulminant hepatitis in heart-transplanted patients after nosocomial transmission of a mutant hepatitis B virus, Hepatology, vol.22, issue.6, pp.1876-1883, 1999.
DOI : 10.1002/hep.510290614