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Inherited HFE-unrelated hemochromatosis in Italian families.
Hepatology (Baltimore, Md.) - 1 May 1999
Camaschella C, Fargion S, Sampietro M, Roetto A, Bosio S, Garozzo G, Arosio C, Piperno A
Abstract excerpt
Hemochromatosis (HH) is usually caused by the homozygous state for C282Y mutation in the HFE gene. A minority of iron loaded patients have no mutations in this gene. An infrequent subset shows an early-onset aggressive disorder, denoted juvenile hemochromatosis (JH), which has no linkage to 6p. In this report we describe six patients from three unrelated Italian families, four men and two women, aged 21 to 44...
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