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Clinical aspects of hemochromatosis.
Transfusion science - 1 Dec 2000
Brissot P, Guyader D, Loréal O, Lainé F, Guillygomarc'h A, Moirand R, Deugnier Y
Abstract excerpt
Hemochromatosis is one of the most frequent genetic diseases among the white populations, affecting one in three hundred persons. Its diagnosis has been radically transformed by the discovery of the HFE gene. In a given individual, the diagnosis can, from now on, be ascertained on the sole association of a plasma transferrin saturation (TS) over 45% and homozygosity for the C282Y mutation. Liver biopsy is only...
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