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Prevalence of HFE mutations in upper Northern Italy: study of 1132 unrelated blood donors.
Digestive and liver disease : official journal of the Italian Society of Gastroenterology and the Italian Association for the Study of the Liver - 1 Jul 2003
Mariani R, Salvioni A, Corengia C, Erba N, Lanzafame C, De Micheli V, Baldini V, Arosio C, Fossati L, Trombini P, Oberkanins C, Piperno A
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: In the Italian general population, prevalence of C282Y is lower than in Northern European countries. We hypothesised a higher prevalence of C282Y in Northern than in Central and Southern Italy. We previously identified a nonsense mutation (W169X) in haemochromatosis probands originati...
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