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A novel homozygous frameshift deletion c.471del of HFE associated with hemochromatosis.
Clinical genetics - 1 Apr 2007
Cukjati M, Koren S, Curin Serbec V, Vidan-Jeras B, Rupreht R
Abstract excerpt
A 47-year-old white male patient who manifested biochemical evidence of iron overload was found not to be a carrier of the three most common mutations, C282Y, H63D and S65C, of the HFE gene. Sequencing of the patient's entire HFE-coding region revealed a presence of a previously undescribed frameshift deletion c.471del in exon 3 resulting in a premature termination of a nonsense HFE protein. Interestingly, the...
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