Screening for iron overload in the Turkish population

Digestive Diseases

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 279-285

  Barut, Gultekin ^a   Balci, Huriye ^a   Bozdayi, Mithat ^b   Hatemi, Ibrahim ^a   Ozcelik, Dervis ^a   Senturk, Hakan ^a,c  

^a ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b ANKARA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c Makbul Apt   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; Hereditary hemochromatosis; HFE gene mutation; Iron overload, prevalence

Indexed keywords

FERRITIN; IRON; TRANSFERRIN;

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; FERRITIN BLOOD LEVEL; GENE MUTATION; HEMOCHROMATOSIS; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IRON BLOOD LEVEL; IRON OVERLOAD; LIVER BIOPSY; MALE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZATION; TRANSFERRIN BLOOD LEVEL; TURKEY (REPUBLIC);

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; FASTING; FEMALE; FERRITINS; GENE FREQUENCY; HEMOCHROMATOSIS; HETEROZYGOTE; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGENS CLASS I; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMANS; INTESTINAL ABSORPTION; IRON; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION; PREVALENCE; TRANSFERRIN; TURKEY;

EID: 0142156604     PISSN: 02572753     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000073985     Document Type: Article

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