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Genetics, Genetic Testing, and Management of Hemochromatosis: 15 Years Since Hepcidin.
Gastroenterology - 1 Oct 2015
Pietrangelo Antonello
Abstract excerpt
The discovery of hepcidin in 2000 and the subsequent unprecedented explosion of research and discoveries in the iron field have dramatically changed our understanding of human disorders of iron metabolism. Today, hereditary hemochromatosis, the paradigmatic iron-loading disorder, is recognized as an endocrine disease due to the genetic loss of hepcidin, the iron hormone produced by the liver. This syndrome is due...
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