Hepatic iron overload: direct HFE (HLA-H) mutation analysis vs quantitative iron assays for the diagnosis of hereditary hemochromatosis.

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Among patients with hepatic iron overload, the distinction between hereditary hemochromatosis (HH), a common yet treatable genetic disease, and other causes of siderosis remains problematic. The recent discovery of a specific homozygous mutation (C282Y) in a novel major histocompatibility complex class I-like gene (named HLA-H or HFE) in 80% to 100% of well-characterized cases of HH suggests that direct DNA-based...

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