Hereditary hemochromatosis: Effect of excessive alcohol consumption on disease expression in patients homozygous for the C282Y mutation

American Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 158, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 129-134

  Scotet, Virginie ^a   Mérour, Marie Christine ^b   Mercier, Anne Yvonne ^b   Chanu, Brigitte ^b   Le Faou, Thérèse ^c   Raguénes, Odile ^a   Le Gac, Gérald ^b   Mura, Catherine ^a   Nousbaum, Jean Baptiste ^d   Férec, Claude ^a,b,e  

^a CHU MORVAN   (France)

^b Site de Brest   (France)

^c ETABLISSEMENT FRANÇAIS DU SANG   (France)

^d BREST UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^e INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

Alcohol drinking; Disease susceptibility; Hemochromatosis; Hereditary diseases; Iron overload

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; FERRITIN; IRON; LIVER ENZYME; TRANSFERRIN;

GENETICS;

ADULT; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; FERRITIN BLOOD LEVEL; FRANCE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC DISORDER; HEMOCHROMATOSIS; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; IRON BLOOD LEVEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; POPULATION RESEARCH; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SKIN PIGMENTATION; TRANSFERRIN BLOOD LEVEL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALANINE TRANSAMINASE; ALCOHOL DRINKING; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASES; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; FEMALE; FERRITINS; FRANCE; HEMOCHROMATOSIS; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMANS; IRON; IRON OVERLOAD; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PIGMENTATION DISORDERS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TRANSFERRIN;

EID: 0037818787     PISSN: 00029262     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwg123     Document Type: Article

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