Twenty-Five Years of Contemplating Genotype-Based Hereditary Hemochromatosis Population Screening.

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Hereditary hemochromatosis (HH) is a rather frequent, preventable disease because the progressive iron overload affecting many organs can be effectively reduced by phlebotomy. Even before the discovery of the major gene, HFE, in 1996, hemochromatosis was seen as a candidate for population-wide screening programmes. A US Centers of Disease Control and the National Human Genome Research Institute expert panel...

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