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Global prevalence of putative haemochromatosis mutations.
Journal of medical genetics - 1 Apr 1997
Merryweather-Clarke A T, Pointon J J, Shearman J D, Robson K J
Abstract excerpt
Haemochromatosis is a genetic disease associated with progressive iron overload, and is common among populations of northern European origin. HLA-H is a recently reported candidate gene for this condition. Two mutations have been identified, a substitution of cysteine for tyrosine at amino acid 282 (C282Y, nucleotide 845) and of histidine for aspartate at amino acid 63 (H63D, nucleotide 187). Over 90% of UK...
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