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Lack of clinical manifestation of hereditary haemochromatosis in South African patients with multiple sclerosis.
Metabolic brain disease - 1 Sept 2006
Kotze Maritha J, de Villiers J Nico P, Warnich Louise, Schmidt Stephen, Carr Jonathan, Mansvelt Erna, Fourie Elba, van Rensburg Susan J
Abstract excerpt
Caucasian South African patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) were screened for the most common hereditary haemochromatosis (HH) mutations, H63D and C282Y, in order to determine the impact of iron overload on clinical outcome of MS. DNA screening for mutations H63D and C282Y in 118 apparently unrelated MS patients did not reveal significant differences in allele frequencies in comparison with a control group from...
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