Constitutive hepcidin expression prevents iron overload in a mouse model of hemochromatosis.

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Hereditary hemochromatosis is a prevalent genetic disorder of iron hyperabsorption leading to hyperferremia, tissue iron deposition and complications including cirrhosis, hepatocarcinoma, cardiomyopathy and diabetes. Most individuals affected with hereditary hemochromatosis are homozygous with respect to a missense mutation that disrupts the conformation of HFE, an atypical HLA class I molecule (ref. 1; OMIM...

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