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Countries of ancestry reported by hemochromatosis probands and control subjects in central Alabama.
Ethnicity & disease - 1 Jan 2004
Barton Ellen H, Barton James C, Hollowell William W, Acton Ronald T
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVES: We sought to evaluate the hypothesis that the relatively high HFE C282Y allele frequency in White persons in central Alabama (0.0896) is due to a predominance of persons of Irish and Scots descent, and is not attributable to Native American ancestry common in this geographic area. DES...
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