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Hereditary hemochromatosis: time for targeted screening.
Annals of internal medicine - 19 Aug 2008
Phatak Pradyumna D, Bonkovsky Herbert L, Kowdley Kris V
Abstract excerpt
The discovery of the HFE gene in 1996 heralded a decade of major advances in the understanding of the mechanisms that control iron absorption and body iron stores. A genetic definition of the common form of hereditary hemochromatosis became possible, and testing for the common causative HFE mutations is now widely available in clinical laboratories. Several population screening studies have confirmed that disease...
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