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Genetic aspects of scurvy and the European famine of 1845-1848.
Nutrients - 12 Sept 2013
Delanghe Joris R, De Buyzere Marc L, Speeckaert Marijn M, Langlois Michel R
Abstract excerpt
The view of scurvy being exclusively a nutritional disorder needs to be updated. Genetic polymorphisms of HFE and haptoglobin (Hp) may explain the geographic variability of mortality caused by the European famine of the mid-19th century. In this period, potatoes had fallen victim to the potato blight and Ireland was more severely hit than continental Europe. Hereditary hemochromatosis is a genetic disorder with...
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