Hemochromatosis: Genetics and pathogenesis

Seminars in Liver Disease

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 55-63

  Powell, Lawrie W ^a,b   Burt, Michael J ^a   Halliday, June W ^a   Jazwinska, Elizabeth C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b Pathology Department RWH North Brisbane Hospitals Board   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; ALCOHOL; ASCORBIC ACID; COLLAGEN; COPPER; CYTOKINE; FERRITIN; GENE PRODUCT; HLA A ANTIGEN; HLA ANTIGEN; IRON; IRON BINDING PROTEIN; LIPID; MALONALDEHYDE; MANGANESE; MESSENGER RNA; PHYTATE; POLYPHENOL; PROCOLLAGEN; TANNIN; TRANSFERRIN; TRANSFERRIN RECEPTOR; ZINC;

CHROMOSOME 6; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GENE; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE LOCATION; HAPLOTYPE; HEMOCHROMATOSIS; HETEROZYGOTE; HLA TYPING; HUMAN; INHERITANCE; INTESTINE MUCOSA; IRON OVERLOAD; LIPID PEROXIDATION; LIVER FIBROSIS; NONHUMAN; PHLEBOTOMY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; RETICULOENDOTHELIAL SYSTEM; REVIEW;

EID: 0030005777     PISSN: 02728087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2007-1007219     Document Type: Review

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