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Clinical and genetic heterogeneity in hereditary haemochromatosis: association between lymphocyte counts and expression of iron overload.
European journal of haematology - 1 Aug 2001
Porto G, Cardoso C S, Gordeuk V, Cruz E, Fraga J, Areias J, Oliveira J C, Bravo F, Gangaidzo I T, MacPhail A P, Gomo Z A, Moyo V M, Melo G, Silva C, Justiça B, de Sousa M
Abstract excerpt
To identify a new marker of expression of disease, independent of HFE genotype in patients with hereditary haemochromatosis (HHC), the total peripheral blood lymphocyte counts were analysed according to iron status in two groups of subjects with HFE mutations. The groups consisted of 38 homozygotes for C282Y, and 107 heterozygotes for the C282Y or compound heterozygotes for C282Y and H63D. For control purposes,...
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