HFE Genotype and Parameters of Iron Metabolism in German First-Time Blood Donors: Evidence for an Increased Transferrin Saturation in C282Y Heterozygotes

Zeitschrift fur Gastroenterologie

Volumn 41, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 1069-1076

  Raddatz, D ^a   Legler, T ^a   Lynen, R ^a   Addicks, N ^a   Ramadori, G ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b Dept Gastroenterol and Endocrinol ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

Ferritin; Hemochromatosis; HFE; Transferrin saturation

Indexed keywords

FERRITIN; HFE PROTEIN; HLA ANTIGEN CLASS 1; TRANSFERRIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE INHERITANCE; BLOOD DONOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FERRITIN BLOOD LEVEL; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE MUTATION; GENOTYPE PHENOTYPE CORRELATION; GERMANY; HEMOCHROMATOSIS; HETEROZYGOSITY; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; LIGASE CHAIN REACTION; MALE; MEAN CORPUSCULAR HEMOGLOBIN; MEAN CORPUSCULAR VOLUME; MISSENSE MUTATION; PENETRANCE; POPULATION GENETICS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ALLELES; BLOOD DONORS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; FERRITINS; GENETIC SCREENING; GENOTYPE; GERMANY; HEMOCHROMATOSIS; HETEROZYGOTE; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGENS CLASS I; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMANS; IRON; MALE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MUTATION; MUTATION, MISSENSE; PHENOTYPE; TRANSFERRIN;

EID: 0345415017     PISSN: 00442771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2003-44299     Document Type: Article

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