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[Mutations of hemochromatosis gene in volunteer blood donors and Chilean porphyria cutanea tarda patients].
Medicina - 1 Jan 2006
Wolff Carlos F, Armas Rodolfo M, Frank Jorge, Poblete Pamela G
Abstract excerpt
In patients with porphyria cutanea tarda (PCT), hepatic iron accumulation associated to hereditary hemochromatosis (HH) could play a role in the etiology and in the clinical expression of the disease. The H63D and C282Y mutations of the HFE gene frequency were studied in a PCT group of patients and compared with the frequency observed in a group of volunteer blood donors. PCT patients were cataloged as hereditary...
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