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This study aimed to explore current practice in the molecular diagnosis of haemochromatosis and draft guidelines were prepared using the template developed by the United Kingdom Clinical Molecular Genetics Society
Abstract:
BACKGROUND: Hereditary haemochromatosis (HH) is a recessively-inherited disorder of iron over-absorption prevalent in Caucasian populations. Affected individuals for Type 1 HH are usually either homozygous for a cysteine to tyrosine amino acid substitution at position 282 (C282Y) of the HFE gene, or compound heterozygotes for C282Y and for a histidine to aspartic acid change at position more...
International Classification:
Practice/knowledge - Symptoms, signs and abonormal clinical and laboratory findings not elses were classified-haemochromatosis
Categories:
molecular diagnosis of haemochromatosis
Geography:
Republic of Ireland
BMC Med Genet,
Vol: 7 Page: 81 2006
C. King; D. E. Barton
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