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Juvenile hemochromatosis in the southeastern United States: a report of seven cases in two kinships.
Blood cells, molecules & diseases - 1 Jan 2000
Barton James C, Rao Sreenivas V, Pereira Naveen M, Gelbart Terri, Beutler Ernest, Rivers Charles A, Acton Ronald T
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We report clinical and genetic characteristics of seven juvenile hemochromatosis (JH) patients (six females, one male) in two unrelated kinships from the southeastern U.S. All had severe iron overload. Mean age at diagnosis was 20 +/- 5 years (range 8-23 years). In six patients, the mean age at onset of signs and symptoms attributable to iron overload was 15 +/- 2 years (12-18 years); an 8-year-old girl had no...
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