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A haplotype and linkage disequilibrium analysis of the hereditary hemochromatosis gene region.
Human genetics - 1 May 1998
Thomas W, Fullan A, Loeb D B, McClelland E E, Bacon B R, Wolff R K
Abstract excerpt
Hereditary hemochromatosis is a recessive disease of iron metabolism widely distributed among people of European descent. Most patients have inherited the causative mutation from a single ancestor. In the course of cloning the hemochromatosis gene, genotypes were generated for these samples at 43 microsatellite repeat markers that span the 6.5-Mb hemochromatosis gene region. The data used to reconstruct the...
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