Article
Geographic variations in Wilson's disease.
Journal of the neurological sciences - 1 Jul 1993
Chu N S, Hung T P
Abstract excerpt
Certain features of Wilson's disease (WD) in Asia have been found to be different from those in other continents. The higher prevalence rate in Japan is presumably due to a higher consanguinity rate. In Chinese there is a tight linkage between WD and two gene loci for esterase D and retinoblastom...
Topics
- Adolescent
- Adult
- Brain Diseases, Metabolic
- Carcinoma, Hepatocellular
- China
- Comorbidity
- Consanguinity
- Copper
- Disease Susceptibility
- Electroencephalography
- Ethnicity
- Europe
- Female
- Gene Frequency
- Genes, Recessive
- Hepatitis B
- Hepatolenticular Degeneration
- Humans