Diagnosis and Treatment of Genetic HFE-Hemochromatosis: The Danish Aspect

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This paper outlines the Danish aspects of HFE -hemochromatosis, which is the most frequent genetic predisposition to iron overload in the five million ethnic Danes; more than 20,000 people are homozygous for the C282Y mutation and more than 500,000 people are compound heterozygous or heterozygous for the HFE -mutations. The disorder has a long preclinical stage with gradually increasing body iron overload and...

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