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Iron overload in urban Africans in the 1990s.
Gut - 1 Aug 1999
Gangaidzo I T, Moyo V M, Saungweme T, Khumalo H, Charakupa R M, Gomo Z A, Loyevsky M, Stearman R, La Vaute T, Enquist E G, Rouault T A, Gordeuk V R
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: In a previously described model, heterozygotes for an African iron loading locus develop iron overload only when dietary iron is high, but homozygotes may do so with normal dietary iron. If an iron loading gene is common, then homozygotes with iron overload will be found even in an urban population where traditional beer, the source of iron, is uncommon. AIMS: To determine whether iron overload and...
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