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Wilson disease and idiopathic copper toxicosis.
The American journal of clinical nutrition - 1 May 1996
Scheinberg I H, Sternlieb I
Abstract excerpt
The pathogenic agent of both Wilson disease (WD) and non-Indian childhood cirrhosis (which we term idiopathic copper toxicosis, or ICT) is copper accumulating to excess in the liver. Inheritance of a pair of alleles of an autosomal recessive gene on chromosome 13 is necessary and sufficient to ca...
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