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Iron disorders of genetic origin: a changing world.
Trends in molecular medicine - 1 Dec 2011
Brissot Pierre, Bardou-Jacquet Edouard, Jouanolle Anne-Marie, Loréal Olivier
Abstract excerpt
Iron disorders of genetic origin are mainly composed of iron overload diseases, the most frequent being HFE-related hemochromatosis. Hepcidin deficiency underlies iron overload in HFE-hemochromatosis as well as in several other genetic iron excess disorders, such as hemojuvelin or hepcidin-related hemochromatosis and transferrin receptor 2-related hemochromatosis. Deficiency of ferroportin, the only known...
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