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Hemochromatosis and "HLA-H": definite!
Hepatology (Baltimore, Md.) - 1 Feb 1997
Jazwinska E C, Powell L W
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BACKGROUND/AIMS: Hereditary hemochromatosis (HH), which affects some 1 in 400 and has an estimated carrier frequency of 1 in 10 individuals of Northern European descent, results in multi-organ dysfunction caused by increased iron deposition, and is treatable if detected early. Using linkage-disequilibrium and full haplotype analysis, we have identified a 250kb region more than 3 megabases telomeric of the major...
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