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Variable phenotypic presentation of iron overload in H63D homozygotes: are genetic modifiers the cause?
Gut - 1 Jun 2001
Aguilar-Martinez P, Bismuth M, Picot M C, Thelcide C, Pageaux G P, Blanc F, Blanc P, Schved J F, Larrey D
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: First considered as a polymorphism of the HFE gene, the H63D mutation is now widely recognised as a haemochromatosis associated allele. But few H63D homozygotes with clinical manifestations of hereditary haemochromatosis (HH) have been reported. Concurrently, an increasing number of genes have been shown to interact with HFE in iron metabolism. AIMS: To describe the clinical expression of iron...
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