Homozygous G320V mutation in the HJV gene causing juvenile hereditary haemochromatosis type A. A case report.

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While classical hereditary haemochromatosis, usually associated with mutations in the HFE gene, has an adult age onset and a long, progressive evolution, juvenile haemochromatosis, most often associated with mutations in the HJV gene, is a more severe, rapidly progressive condition and has an onset before the age of 30. We report a 26-year old woman with a severe iron overload, affected by hypogonadotropic...

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