Genetic hyperferritinaemia and reticuloendothelial iron overload associated with a three base pair deletion in the coding region of the ferroportin gene (SLC11A3)

British Journal of Haematology

Volumn 119, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 539-546

  Cazzola, Mario ^a,e   Cremonesi, Laura ^b   Papaioannou, Maria ^c   Soriani, Nadia ^b   Kioumi, Anna ^c   Charalambidou, Anastasia ^c   Paroni, Rita ^b   Romtsou, Katerina ^c   Levi, Sonia ^b   Ferrari, Maurizio ^b   Arosio, Paolo ^d   Christakis, John ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^b SAN RAFFAELE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^c Cancer Hospital Theagenio   (Greece)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRESCIA   (Italy)

^e FONDAZIONE IRCCS POLICLINICO SAN MATTEO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Ferritin; Ferroportin; Iron; Iron overload; Reticuloendothelial cell

Indexed keywords

FERRITIN; HEMOGLOBIN; IRON; VALINE;

AGE; ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT DISORDER; CATARACT; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DENATURATION; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FAMILY; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC DISORDER; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; HETEROZYGOSITY; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HYPERFERRITINEMIA; IRON OVERLOAD; KUPFFER CELL; LIVER BIOPSY; MALE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; RETICULOENDOTHELIAL SYSTEM; RNA TRANSLATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FERRITINS; GENE DELETION; GENES, DOMINANT; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMANS; IRON OVERLOAD; KUPFFER CELLS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PEDIGREE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TRANSFERRIN; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEATS;

EID: 18744400781     PISSN: 00071048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2141.2002.03946.x     Document Type: Article

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