Haemochromatosis in patients with β‐thalassaemia trait

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Severe iron overload has been reported in patients with the beta-thalassaemia trait. Studies performed before the discovery of the haemochromatosis gene (HFE) have yielded conflicting results: some suggest that iron overload might arise from the interaction of the beta-thalassaemia trait with heterozygosity for haemochromatosis, some with homozygosity for haemochromatosis and others that it was unrelated to...

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