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Genetic Risk for Hemochromatosis is Associated with Movement Disorders
2021-08-24
Abstract excerpt
Hereditary hemochromatosis (HH) is an autosomal recessive genetic disorder that can lead to iron overload, causing oxidative damage to affected organs. HH type 1 is predominantly associated with homozygosity for the mutation p.C282Y. Previous case studies have reported tentative links between HH and movement disorders, e.g., Parkinson’s disease, and basal ganglia abnormalities on magnetic resonance imaging. We inv...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 408379d7-517e-5059-8a75-e9b0c8fa900e
- DOI
- 10.1101/2021.08.16.21262117
