Haemochromatosis in the new millennium.

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Hereditary haemochromatosis (HHC) is a common inherited disorder of iron metabolism characterised by progressive iron loading of parenchymal cells of the liver, pancreas, heart and other organs ultimately leading to cirrhosis and organ failure. Despite HLA studies which localised the defective gene to the short arm of chromosome 6, the haemochromatosis gene remained elusive until 1996, when the gene was...

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