Prevalence of C282Y and E168X HFE mutations in an Italian population of Northern European ancestry

Haematologica

Volumn 88, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 250-255

  Salvioni, Alessandra ^a   Mariani, Raffaella ^a   Oberkanins, Christian ^b   Moritz, Anne ^b   Mauri, Viviana ^a   Pelucchi, Sara ^a   Riva, Alessia ^a   Arosio, Cristina ^a   Cerutti, Paolo ^c   Piperno, Alberto ^a  

^a SAN GERARDO HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b VIENNALAB DIAGNOSTICS GMBH   (Austria)

^c Ospedale San Biagio   (Italy)

Author keywords

6p haplotype; Blood donors; C282Y; E168X; Hemochromatosis; HFE

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; HFE PROTEIN; PROTEIN C282Y; PROTEIN E168X; PROTEIN H63D; PROTEUB S65C; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; BLOOD DONOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPE; HEMOCHROMATOSIS; HETEROZYGOTE; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMAN; HYBRIDIZATION; ITALY; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MICROSATELLITE MARKER; NONSENSE MUTATION; NORMAL HUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE;

FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPES; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGENS CLASS I; HUMANS; ITALY; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MUTATION, MISSENSE; PREVALENCE; TOPOGRAPHY, MEDICAL;

EID: 0037346258     PISSN: 03906078     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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