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Liver pathology in compound heterozygous patients for hemochromatosis mutations.
Liver - 1 Aug 2002
Schöniger-Hekele Maximilian, Müller Christian, Polli Claudia, Wrba Friedrich, Penner Edward, Ferenci Peter
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BACKGROUND: While hepatic pathology of homozygous carriers of the C282Y mutation of the HFE haemochromatosis gene is well defined, the impact of the C282Y/H63D compound heterozygous carrier state is unknown. AIMS: To evaluate the range of hepatic pathology in C282Y/H63D compound heterozygous patients. PATIENTS: 25 C282Y/H63D compound heterozygous patients with and without known underlying liver disease underwent...
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