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Hemochromatosis in Ireland and HFE.
Blood cells, molecules & diseases - 1 Dec 1998
Ryan E, O'keane C, Crowe J
Abstract excerpt
Sixty patients diagnosed with hereditary hemochromatosis with grade 3 or 4 hepatic iron overload and 18 patients diagnosed with hereditary hemochromatosis who had less than grade 3 hepatic iron overload were examined for the HFE gene mutations, 845A (C282Y) and 187G (H63D). Control samples were obtained from 109 randomly selected individuals. Fifty-six of 60 unrelated hereditary hemochromatosis patients (93%)...
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