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HFE mutations in heart disease.
Heart and vessels - 1 Sept 2008
Dunn Terence, Blankenship Derek, Beal Nicole, Allen Richard, Schechter Eliot, Moore William, Perveen Ghazala, Eichner June
Abstract excerpt
Given the reported association of cardiac complications with hereditary hemochromatosis and the high carrier frequency of HFE gene mutations in the natural population, it seems reasonable that such mutations might appear more frequently than expected among symptomatic cardiac patients. Thus, H63D, C282Y, and S65C mutations and their possible associations were examined in 477 Caucasian males undergoing coronary...
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