Frequency of the HFE gene mutations in five Italian populations

Blood Cells, Molecules, and Diseases

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 267-273

  Candore, Giuseppina ^b   Mantovani, Vilma ^c   Balistreri, Carmela Rita ^b   Lio, Domenico ^b   Colonna Romano, Giuseppina ^b   Cerreta, Vincenzo ^c   Carru, Ciriaco ^d   Deiana, Luca ^d   Pes, Giovanni ^d   Menardi, Giuseppe ^e   Perotti, Laura ^e   Miotti, Valeria ^f   Bevilacqua, Elena ^g   Amoroso, Antonio ^g   Caruso, Calogero ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SASSARI   (Italy)

^e S CROCE E CARLE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^f SANTA MARIA DELLA MISERICORDIA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^g UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Ancestral haplotype; Hereditary hemochromatosis; HFE; HLA; SNP

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; ASPARTIC ACID; CYSTEINE; DNA; HISTIDINE; HLA A3 ANTIGEN; META TYROSINE; SERINE;

ADULT; AGED; ALLELISM; ARTHROPATHY; ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE DISORDER; CHROMOSOME 6; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE MUTATION; GEOGRAPHY; HAPLOTYPE; HEMOCHROMATOSIS; HFE GENE; HLA SYSTEM; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IRON OVERLOAD; LABORATORY TEST; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EMILIA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS PHAGE 187;

EID: 0036927908     PISSN: 10799796     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/bcmd.2002.0567     Document Type: Article

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