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Role of TfR2-Y250X and TfR1- rs3817672 Single Nucleotide Polymorphism on Pathophysiology of Iron Deficiency Anemia.
The Journal of the Association of Physicians of India - 1 Nov 2019
Pandey Sweta, Pandey Sanjay Kumar, Shah Vineet
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BACKGROUND: Transferrin receptor (TfR) is a carrier protein for transferrin. It is regulated in response to intracellular iron concentration and plays a role for the import of iron into the cell. The transferring receptor 2 (TFR2) gene showed homology to transferrin receptor 1 (TFR1) gene and encodes a transmembrane protein with a large extracellular domain, which is able to bind transferrin. Mutations in...
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