Iron Refractory Iron Deficiency Anemia Due to 374 Base Pairs Deletion in the TMPRSS6 Gene.

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Iron refractory iron deficiency anemia is an autosomal recessive disorder arising from defects in iron metabolism that cause microcytic anemia to grow resistant to treatment. The patients usually do not respond to orally administered iron treatment and partially respond to intravenous iron administration. Mutations of TMPRSS6 gene which encodes matriptase-2 are the main cause of the disorder. Here, we describe...

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