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HFE gene mutations in patients with altered iron metabolism in Argentina.
Cellular and molecular biology (Noisy-le-Grand, France) - 1 Jul 2009
Rossetti M V, Méndez M, Afonso S, Gerez E, Batlle A, Muñoz A, Parera V
Abstract excerpt
Hereditary Hemochromatosis (HH) is an iron overload syndrome caused by increased duodenal iron absorption, which leads to excessive iron deposition in parenchymal cells of the liver and mayor organs, causing cirrhosis, diabetes, cardiac failure, endocrine complications and arthritis. There are 6 types of HH related to mutations in the genes that encode proteins of iron metabolism. HH Type I is inherited as an...
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