I only know I'm genotype 2 and I've never really cared about any of the other, just getting rid of the alien virus~but that's me.
As Deb mentions, whether you're G1a or G1b, the trt is the same, so no use worrying. The IL28B test became available in the labs shortly after I started trt. I wanted to have this done, but was already UND at 4 weeks and realized at that point, it didn't matter.
Since you were UND at 8 weeks, this information really isn't important during this trt. Just time to focus on the remainder of trt and put this behind you. Stay focused and keep chugging along, the weeks will click on by. Best of luck to you.
I just posted on exaddicts thread . I had G1a and G1b both. It doesn't matter -you treat it the same way, regardless. Once you are UND you are UND.
We didn't have the tests back then so oldies didn't know if we were CC or not.
Still many of us are cured.
So have faith - it's not how much you know, it's still just beating the h3ll out of what you have! :)
I don't know about your specific lab, but I know sometimes viral genotype can't be determined at all - not even able to say type 1, 2, 3, 4, etc. Genotype 1 can have any where from 9030 to 9042 nucleotides
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1847443/?tool=pubmed
Section 7.0 paragraph 2
which means there's a lot of variation between subtypes.
As far as host genotype on the IL28B gene (CC or CT or TT) this is a separate test from viral genotyping and some docs don't even do it.
http://www.svaproject.org/L8464-0710-Service-Announcement-FINAL.pdf