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Analysis of HFE and non-HFE gene mutations in Brazilian patients with hemochromatosis.
Clinics (Sao Paulo, Brazil) - 1 Jan 2009
Bittencourt Paulo Lisboa, Marin Maria Lúcia Carnevale, Couto Cláudia Alves, Cançado Eduardo Luiz Rachid, Carrilho Flair José, Goldberg Anna Carla
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Approximately one-half of Brazilian patients with hereditary hemochromatosis (HH) are neither homozygous for the C282Y mutation nor compound heterozygous for the H63D and C282Y mutations that are associated with HH in Caucasians. Other mutations have been described in the HFE gene as well as in genes involved in iron metabolism, such as transferrin receptor 2 (TfR2) and ferroportin 1 (SCL40A1). AIMS:...
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