**5. Conclusions**

This study highlighted the importance of hepatic biomarker association with genotypes, which can be used as a base for further studies to investigate such an association. The advantage of this study was to provide a baseline study to draw a good estimate of HBV genotype distribution in Bahrain.

**Author Contributions:** Conceptualization, E.M.J.; methodology, S.A.-O., A.D., E.M.J., J.G., S.J.S., B.A., Z.I. and S.P.; data curation, E.M.J., M.A.-M., Z.I., and S.P.; writing—original draft preparation, E.M.J. and J.G.; writing—review and editing, E.M.J., Z.I., S.P.

**Funding:** This research was funded by University of Bahrain, Deanship of Scientific Research, gran<sup>t</sup> number [4/2017].

**Acknowledgments:** The authors wish to thank all participants in this study and also to thank BDF hospital for collecting clinical samples. The authors would like also to thank Fatema Abdulwaheed Yaqub and Rukaya Abdulghafoor Jalal for their help in HBV genotyping and data entry. Finally, it is our pleasure to acknowledge with gratitude the financial support of University of Bahrain, Deanship of Scientific Research.

**Conflicts of Interest:** The authors declare no conflict of interest.
