Serum ferritin as a marker of affection for genetic hemochromatosis.

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A bivariate segregation analysis of genetic hemochromatosis with serum ferritin concentration was undertaken to examine the pleiotropic effect of the hemochromatosis locus on each of the two phenotypes, in an ascertained sample of families from Brittany, France. The gene was recessive with respect to both phenotypes, and the estimated gene frequency in the general population was 0.054. Although the ferritin...

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