Genetic and clinical description of hemochromatosis probands and heterozygotes: Evidence that multiple genes linked to the major histocompatibility complex are responsible for hemochromatosis

Blood Cells, Molecules and Diseases

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 135-145

  Barton, James C ^a   Shih, Wendy W H ^b   Sawada Hirai, Ritsuko ^b   Acton, Ronald T ^c   Harmon, Leigh ^c   Rivers, Charles ^c   Rothenberg, Barry E ^b  

^a S Iron Disord Ctr Brookwood M   (United States)

^b Billups Rothenberg Inc   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

Hemochromatosis; Iron; Iron overload; Major histocompatibilily complex

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC LINKAGE; HEMOCHROMATOSIS; HUMAN; IRON METABOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

STAPHYLOCOCCUS PHAGE 187;

EID: 0030814039     PISSN: 10799796     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/bcmd.1997.0129     Document Type: Article

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